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    Luciano Cheng

    Luciano Cheng

    Engineering leader, founder and angel investor. Floc Media: data cleaning and engineering. Previously Google, Schrödinger, Stride Health, Airtable, Gallup.

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    Experience
    Stride
    Stride
    Director of Engineering 2015 - 2017 (almost 3 years)
    Ran engineering (~30 people) for the health-insurance and benefits platform for independent workers; enrollment and recommendation systems across state and federal exchanges... more in all 50 states.
    Google
    Google
    Software Engineer 2010 - 2012 (almost 3 years)
    Google Docs / Google Sites, New York. Second hire in the Sites group after its move from Mountain View; led the rendering-pipeline refactor and launched automatic mobile rendering... more for every Google Site in 2011.
    Gallup
    Gallup
    Data and AI Advisor, Office of the CTO 2024 - Present (almost 3 years)
    Technology strategy in the Office of the CTO; a stint as interim head of the growth organization; now data and AI advisor to the CFO. Engagement runs through Floc Media.
    Floc Media
    Floc Media
    Founder 2020 - Present (almost 7 years)
    Data cleaning and engineering consultancy that also holds a few consumer apps. The Gallup, Select Star and Cognitive Space engagements run through it.
    Select Star
    Select Star
    Advisor to the CTO 2024 - 2025 (almost 2 years)
    Built the engineering leveling framework and advised the CEO through the acquisition by Snowflake (2025). Engagement ran through Floc Media.
    Airtable
    Airtable
    Engineering Advisor 2017 - 2018 (almost 2 years)
    Engineering advisor (contract).
    Benny
    Benny
    Co-Founder and CTO 2014 - 2016 (almost 3 years)
    Co-founded Benny, a benefits and tax product for independent workers; built the product and engineering team. Acquired by Stride Health in 2016.
    Schrodinger
    Schrodinger
    Tech Lead, Enterprise Products (LiveDesign) 2012 - 2014 (almost 3 years)
    Founding tech lead and lead architect of LiveDesign, Schrödinger's collaborative platform for drug design; led the rewrite of Seurat into LiveDesign through its 2014 launch.... more Architecture across a 25-engineer division; managed a team of seven.
    Bloomberg
    Bloomberg
    R&D Developer 2009 - 2010 (about 1 year)
    Founder
     
    Employee
    Google, Stride, Bloomberg, Schrodinger, Benny, Airtable, Select Star, Floc Media, Gallup
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    About
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    Silicon Valley
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