Leon Cheng

UI Designer & Frontend Developer
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020 @ New York, NY

Collaborated with the 2 Co-founders in developing an on-brand website for the nonprofit.
You can view the Adobe XD mockups here: Mobile and Desktop.
Public website available here: https://upstyling.github.io/

UI Designer
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020 @ New York, NY

Collaborated with the the artist Solstice Fayemz to develop a website design that suited his taste and could convey his passion.
You can view the Adobe XD mockup here: Mockup.

UI Designer
2 weeks in Oct 2020 @ New York, NY

I really enjoyed taking a Udemy UX Design Essentials course and making this project - a mockup made for a theoretical furniture company customer.
You can view the Adobe XD mockups here: Mobile and Desktop.

Frontend Developer
2 days in Sep 2020 @ New York, NY

Built for a friend's personal use. Anthony was losing access to his WordPress-created website and wanted a way to port it over to a different host. I set out to coding it up for fun and completely built up a changeable replica website using Sass and Pug.
Repo can found on GitHub: achengs-website

Yext

frontend developer
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 @ New York, NY

Implemented new features within the company infrastructure, fixed security bugs, and wrote thorough tests in order to improve services such as emails, text messages, admin consoles, and webhooks in the backend, using Java, SQL, Sentry, SendGrid
Actively discovered parts of the code that could be replaced or improved to enable greater performance or better scalability
Responded to urgent requests from customers and communicated cross-platform to devise immediate and effective fixes
Deployed production-level code within a Continuous Integration and Agile workflow with an emphasis on clean, scalable code

Undergraduate Researcher
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020 @ Cambridge, MA

Highly improved exposure of research concept by designing a full website to showcase 3D models with intelligently interpolated printing algorithms, built using React, Heroku, JavaScript, Flask
Devised algorithms to efficiently auto-layout electronic sensors on custom board shapes 2x faster using Python and Rhino
Assembled a custom-modified coffeemaker to demonstrate proof of concept for a novel 3D pattern-based ID protocol

Vice President of Web
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020 @ Cambridge, MA

Completely reengineered from scratch the online platform for MIT’s main entrepreneurship club at http://startup.mit.edu/
Built a new website with higher scalability, security, and cleaner code using Flask, FastCGI, and JavaScript
Collaborated in tandem with club visual designer and managed 5 teammates through skill training and division of responsibilities
See the current website at startup.mit.edu

Fullstack Developer Intern
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 @ Menlo Park, CA

Improved employee workflows and reduced customer turnaround time by building a complete data visualizer tool to understand user sessions 80% faster. Built with React and Flask, secured with OAuth, and hosted on AWS. Promoted this tool for use across 4 different company teams by designing and implementing an intuitive and pleasing UI/UX.
Increased company efficiency by building a searchable, editable, and scalable dictionary for obscure debug events to make understanding errors 30% faster and communication between teams 10% faster, using React

Student
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018 @ Cambridge, MA

Took the project course at MIT called 6.810 Engineering Interactive Technologies. Gained valuable experience and enjoyment in hardware and prototyping.
An interactive device was defined as something that is able to intelligently and automatically adapt to the human needs of a situation. So our idea was to build a floaty that trains you on how to swim by yourself by floating you more when you start to sink more.
See more on the website

Instructor
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019 @ Cambridge, MA

[Interconnected Embedded Systems Course] Oversaw 8 labs of 80 students each and graded their understanding on basic servers, state machines, and electronic sensors
[Computation Structures Course] Sat in 8 labs of 15 students each and guided them on assignments related to CMOS, stacks, memory, caches, and threading

Instructor
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 @ Taiwan and Hong Kong

Created and taught ten 60-90 minute lessons on web development and python programming for 100 students each
Improved personal communication and patience by interacting with local students and heeding feedback on effective teaching
See the website used for teaching at MYCamp Lessons

Internship
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018 @ Cambridge, MA

Collaborated on project seeking to utilize smartphones to capture 2D visualizations of a room and then use computer vision and machine learning to rapidly convert data into a fully accurate 3D model which can then be used for home renovations.
Constructed a scalable and secure API and NoSQL database to interact between machine learning and image processing systems.

Student
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 @ Cambridge, MA

Learned how to build a full electric boat using power tools, computer aided design, and other fabrication materials in a team of five students.
Intensely collaborated with Singaporean students, living with them, learning their culture, and going around the city with them for an entire summer.
Watch a short video of the summer here

Internship
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 @ New York, NY

Encouraged creativity by experimentally building an app for emotion analysis and identity recognition, tested for its potential impact on attendance systems or inspiring meeting engagement, using Python, Flask, JavaScript and Microsoft Cognitive Services

Organizer
Feb 2016 - May 2016 @ New York. NY

Recruited 12 companies as sponsors including Digital Ocean, Wolfram, MIT Launch, and Amazon Alexa. Raised funds exceeding $1100 as well as prizes for 4 teams