Kyle Cheung Email & Phone Number

Austin, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software Engineer - Payroll Product (2015-2019)Full stack engineer working on the Square Payroll product team using Ruby on Rails and Ember.js- Designed and implemented support for 1099 contractors which required updates to the product's employer and employee onboarding processes as well as tax filing system to allow Payroll usage in states not fully available for W2 employees. - Launched Square Payroll in the multiple states involving updating the product's onboarding and dashboard to support different tax requirements for each state, including automated quarterly and annual tax filings for each state using scheduled background jobs- Tech lead for a recommendations system within the Payroll product. Worked directly with product and design to develop workflows to raise employer enrollment of benefits for employees and a system to promote adoption of new features. Senior Software Engineer - Payroll Product / Regulator (2019-2022)Backend engineer working on the Square Payroll product Ops sub-team using Ruby on Rails and Ember.js- Engineer for the Payroll Ops sub team responsible for the support of new taxes and tax situations such as FFCRA changes to Federal tax forms, development of the Payroll tax engine, responsible for tracking and monitoring money movement and reconciliations- Tech lead for Year round W2 feature to allow W2s to be viewed and downloaded throughout the year to employers, employees and the Operations team in order to provide early data validations that reduce tax filing errors for end-of-year annual filings. Worked closely with operations and support to focus on reduction of support cases that involved bad employer and employee tax information that prevent W2 filings.- Built a new system for the Payroll tax engine to help decouple the existing tax engine from the Payroll monolith as well as design a more agnostic system to better support future tax engines.

- Working collaboratively with PM, UX and QA teams to help design and implement upcoming features using Apex, Visualforce, CSS, HTML and Javascript. - Actively participating in Sprint planning by prioritizing ticket, giving estimates and feedback on technical feasibility.- Own features throughout development, continually working on them as requirements and use cases evolve based on customer feedback.- Effectively fixing bugs after each release in a timely manner.- Maintain 85% test coverage for the entire source code. - Stepping in as engineering lead when needed and taking responsibility. - Helping teammates debug and brainstorm features.- Participating heavily in the hiring process and interviewing potential engineering candidates.

- Developing Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) software within the Salesforce platform using Apex, Javascript and Visualforce.- Joined the team as the 2nd software engineer pre-release, working with PMs and Project leads to refine features and to polish user flows.- Using an Agile approach to quickly implement features and redevelop the UI.- Learned Apex and Visualforce on the job.- Jumped into development after training and produced quality code.

Deerfield, Il, Us

- Researched potential integration of JMS using JBoss within the product architecture to decide whether or not it is a viable solution. - Developed an Eclipse IDE plugin to automate the local build process to reduce downtime from half a day to 1 hour.- Developed a TFS service to sync bug reports and bug tickets from SalesForce using XML mapping and C++ to reduce duplicate bug entries.- Efficiently completed the given task within the tight schedule and maintained documentation throughout each project.- Used a semi-agile process by using daily scums to determine goals and deadlines.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

- Migrated a desktop application developed in WinDev to a web application written in C# with ASP.NET framework using MVC 3 Razor view engine to introduce new end users and new features.- Redesigned old features using new use cases based on various end users.- Delved through legacy code to understand the logic and data flow to optimize new features.- Learned Model-View-Controller on the job to design the new web application.- Maintained up-to-date shipment listings and shipment assignments between dispatchers and drivers using AJAX.