Summary
Chaofeng Zhang is a senior architect and engineering manager based in Shanghai with a decade of experience building cluster management, HPC, AI and container platforms. He founded and led development of Lenovo’s LiCO platform and helped commercialize products like iHyperDB, combining deep systems programming (Python, Java, C, HTML/JS) with product-first instincts. His career spans IBM, Lenovo and Huawei, where he architected large-scale HPC stacks integrating MPI, OpenHPC, schedulers (LSF/Slurm/Torque), GPFS/Lustre, and container runtimes for production AI workloads. Known as a self-driving leader, he scales teams and translates research-level ideas into market-winning products. He currently leads robotics platform and tooling work at Lenovo Research, bringing cluster and AI infrastructure expertise to robot systems. His background in mechanical automation and aerospace engineering gives him a practical systems perspective that helps bridge hardware, firmware and distributed software.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor's degree Aerospace Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University
Master's degree Mechanical automation, Master's degree Mechanical automation at Xi'an Jiaotong University