Ashley Cheung

Hi! I'm

Ashley

My Journey

Software Engineer @ TikTok

August 2024 - PRESENT

Frontend technical owner of the TikTok LIVE Vault Gift series, a premium gifting product contributing 5–10% of platform gifting revenue

Led frontend development of the Vault Dawn & Dusk campaign,increasing gift revenue by 12.1%

Technical owner of Caishen, an internal configuration platform serving multiple business lines, which reduced bug count by 40% and cut configuration time from 2 days to 1 hour

Built a no-code drag-and-drop editor enabling cross-functional teams to configure pages independently, saving 3 days of frontend and 2 days of server manpower per Vault cycle

Automated daily Vault operational monitoring , saving 1 day of manual intervention per Vault open

Engineered an MCP server for the Caishen platform, enabling AI agent integrations and unlocking natural language access to internal tooling

Junior Software Engineer @ Freelancer.com

March 2023 - July 2024

Implemented dynamic frontend components using Angular

Took charge in migrating the twilio-sdk of the Angular Webapp to the zoom-sdk

Created well tested REST API endpoints using PHP and Python

Automated the team's internal task tracking through Typescript

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Software Engineer Intern @ Freelancer.com

December 2022 - March 2023

Wrote efficient SQL queries for Freelancer's production database with over 68 million users

Implemented UI tests for Angular frontend components

Followed an Agile project management methodology

Computer Science and Mechatronics Engineering @ UNSW

January 2019 - December 2023

Engineering (Mechatronics) / Computer Science Double Degree

Distinction Average WAM (above 80)

Included in UNSW Dean's Honour's list in 2020, 2021, and 2022

Proficient in Algorithms & Datastructures, Databases, Networking through course work

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Senior years @ Baulkham Hills Highschool

2017 - 2018

Graduated with an ATAR of 98.95

Distinguished achiever in Mathematics Extension 1 & 2, Physics, English (Advanced)

My Work

As a tinkerer at heart, there is nothing I like to do more than to tinker with projects in my spare time! From multiplayer games, to full stack webapps and even computer vision AI bots, these are just to name a few of the types of projects I love to work on. There is a unique joy that comes from seeing something you work on come to fruition - when that first button click works - it is a satisfaction like no other!