Cheng Li is a Building new things, building a team. at TidalWave. Colleagues describe them as "Cheng was one of the best new graduate hire FreeWheel engineering team had. In years, Cheng had been on fast track growing from an hard core engineer to a skilled people manager. After FreeWheel, Cheng joined Google and later on, founded his own company serving as CTO, traveling bw US and China. At same period of time, I was also having an adventure in Asia, setup an office in China. Given similar experience we had, we talked often. I could clearly see Cheng’s solid understanding in computer sciences, sense on people and soft skills transformed him to a great leader. If I were to start a new company, Cheng would be my perfect partner for CTO." and "I had the pleasure to work together with Cheng when he was director of engineering at FreeWheel. Although working in different areas, I'm deeply impressed by Cheng's detail-oriented, hands-on and hands-off leadership style. - Detail-oriented: Cheng handed over a component that he led when he left, and I was astonished to see the well organized documentations and code which gave me a much easier time to proceed. Grown from a software engineer, Cheng is keen in keeping his good engineering habits even after he transits into a leadership position. - Hands-on: Cheng is never afraid of a technical challenge. As the leader of his group, he never hesitates to take on the most difficult task, and devotes his time to solving the tough problems. - Hands-off: I witnessed Cheng hiring an extremely talented engineer who quickly became an Architect. Cheng obviously also was well aware of her talent, and correspondingly assigned important projects to the individual, full of trust, without looking over her shoulders or micro-manage of any sort. I would without any hesitation highly recommend Cheng for any engineering leadership opportunities and I'm very certain that he will fulfill the position very well."