
Chencheng W.
5.0
Scale Your Leadership: Instacart Eng Director & Ex-LinkedIn
Studied at Purdue University
Works at Instacart
Available Friday at 10:00 PM UTC
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Chencheng's Coaching Offerings

Executive Coaching — Getting Started Package
Executive coaching for high-impact leadership
Starting at $6605h+ of coaching

Complete 6 Month Executive Coaching Engagement (360 Analysis Included)
Complete 6 month executive coaching engagement with a top executive coach
$5,00030h–40h of coaching
Pay as you go
Get help with Strategy, Team Management, and Leadership Development.
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Chencheng’s Executive Qualifications
Experience level: Director
With over a decade of experience in engineering leadership, I have a proven track record of building and scaling high-performance teams at top tech companies like Instacart and LinkedIn. As the Director of Engineering at Instacart, I lead multiple teams to build systems to drive user acquisition and retention, while my tenure at LinkedIn I started as a founding team member of LinkedIn Sales Navigator, contributed significantly on the growth of this new business into billion-dollar business. My journey from Software Engineer to Director has equipped me with the skills to build strategy and vision, deliver strong business results through high performance team with great culture. If you're looking to enhance your leadership skills and drive impactful change in your organization, let's connect and create a tailored plan for your success!
Chencheng can help with:
Strategy
Team Management
Leadership Development
Chencheng also coaches for Leadership Development and Career Development. View all.
Work Experience
Director of Engineering
Instacart
May 2022 - Present
I led a few engineering teams in Growth. We drive new user acquisition and retention through partnership and membership. We build platform and toolings to drive Instacart’s growth across user’s lifecycle through marketing channels (CRM, paid marketing)

Senior Engineering Manager
August 2018 - May 2022
I led the CRM platform team of LinkedIn Sales Navigator, attributing to half of the revenue of a billion dollar business. Rebuilt the team from 4 engineers and scaled to two teams. I learned how to build high performance teams, foster great team culture, and aligning with cross functions to make customer focused strategy and deliver strong business results from this experience.

Staff Software Engineer
September 2014 - August 2018
Promoted twice from SWE to Sr SWE, to Staff SWE in 3.5 years, being apprentice manager in the last 0.5 years. I learned how to build solid and good products features used by millions of users, I also learned how to lead large and complex engineering executions from this experience.
Software Engineer
Qualcomm
March 2012 - August 2014
Enabling Windows And Android phones through Qualcomm’s system on chip drivers.
Education
Purdue University
Master's Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering
2009 - 2011
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