Cheng Cheng
Software Engineer at Apple
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Cheng is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience architecting and delivering cloud-native and virtualization infrastructure, currently at Apple in Palo Alto. He brings deep expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, virtualization, distributed storage (Ceph, etcd), and multi-cloud ecosystems, with hands-on roles spanning kernel-level work to large-scale platforms. At VMware, he was a founding engineer for vSphere Integrated Kubernetes (Project Pacific) and a primary contributor to the vSphere CSI driver, also prototyping kubelet for vSphere and building a hypervisor-based container runtime. He led the design of a container-optimized Photon appliance for security and footprint reduction, and was a key contributor to VMware PKS, which earned the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award for Container Management Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University (with MSc) and a BEng from Beijing Institute of Technology, reflecting a strong academic foundation underpinning his industry impact, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, 3.81, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, 3.81 at Beijing institute of Technology, ZhuhaiMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.87, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.87 at Purdue University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (60)
infiniband10
libvirt10
kubernetes10
glusterfs10
fat10
rdma10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cchengleo/ceph
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:64 pushes, 14 branches, 1 comment in 2 months
file-storagecephdatabasestoragedistributed
cchengleo/kubevirt
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Contributions:16 pushes, 7 branches in 26 days
vdiapiisolationvmsmachines
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