Cheng Cheng
Software Engineer at Apple
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Cheng is a software engineer with 11 years of experience and more than eight years focused on systems-level software, from kernel modules and hypervisors to large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native platforms. He has driven core infrastructure work at VMware—helping architect PKS, vSphere Integrated Kubernetes, a hypervisor-based container runtime, and vSphere CSI—and currently applies that expertise at Apple, concentrating on the Kubernetes ecosystem. Proficient in C/C++ and Go with strong Python and Java skills, he combines deep virtualization and storage knowledge (Ceph, etcd, KVM) with practical cloud and CI/CD tooling across AWS, GCP, and Azure. His background includes academic research on heterogeneous VM migration and control-plane resiliency, reflecting a rare blend of rigorous research instincts and production-grade engineering. Notably, he has a track record of designing recoverable control planes and container-optimized appliances that improve upgradability, security, and operational reliability.
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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