Cheng Zhang
Product Management at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Zhang is a product management and hardware systems leader with eight years of experience driving server hardware, firmware qualification, and supply chain programs at Microsoft and AWS. He combines deep technical grounding in electrical engineering and DevOps—demonstrated by contributions to Microsoft PAI’s Kubernetes/Ansible deployment and autoscaler work—with strong supplier and ODM engagement to bring complex server products to market. At Microsoft he leads cross-functional ML tooling and hardware qualification efforts that reduce operational overhead and cycle time, while previously scaling Qualification-as-a-Service at AWS to improve datacenter reliability. Cheng’s background spans technical sourcing for SSDs, product change management, and end-to-end supply chain optimization, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on infrastructure work and strategic program delivery. Based in Bellevue, he pairs an MBA from Carnegie Mellon with pragmatic engineering instincts to translate technical trade-offs into supplier-backed, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), IT Strategy, Marketing, Operation, Master of Business Administration (MBA), IT Strategy, Marketing, Operation at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of BusinessUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
cluster-manager10
cluster-api10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
clustering10
microsoft-azure9
resource-management9
azure9
scheduling8
bash7
docker6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/pai
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Resource scheduling and cluster management for AI
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 12 commits, 21 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Cheng contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the `microsoft/pai` repository, primarily focusing on Kubernetes and Ansible. They made changes to deployment scripts for Kubespray, addressing deprecated variables and improving logging. Their work included modifications to configuration synchronization and the addition of features for node management (adding/removing) using `paictl.py`. Furthermore, the user worked on implementing an autoscaler for Kubernetes, which involved the integration of cloud monitoring tools.
cluster-managementmodel-trainingchainertensorflowcloud
Starmys/CarbonMapDataFactory
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:267 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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