The people behind Peloton Cycle recognized a paradox in modern fitness. Many people want to get fit at home and balk at joining a sports team or gym. Yet home fitness routines are notoriously less successful—precisely because they lack social interaction. So with the creation of the Peloton Cycle, an indoor exercise bike capable of live streaming and on-demand group cycling classes/rides which anyone can join, the developers hit on a way to bring sporting social interaction into everyone’s home. Join Yony Feng and Harshal Vora as they discuss the process of Peloton’s developing and testing...
Yony Feng
Peloton
CTO of Peloton Yony Feng has created a platform for Peloton’s indoor stationary bike with live streaming capabilities and real-time leaderboards. Yony manages end-to-end technology—from the user interface to bike sensors. He has significantly contributed to Peloton’s Android platform codebase, infrastructure, encoding toolchain, and analytics platform. Previously Yony was a software engineer for Cisco Systems and Skype, and a senior platform engineer at Ticketfly.