Chengyu Fan
Senior Software Engineer at Fortinet
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChengyu Fan is a Senior Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and 12 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems from research prototypes to production storage and networking products. Based in Cupertino, he has driven key features at Pure Storage—improving FlashArray throughput and non-disruptive upgrades—and now contributes to Fortinet’s engineering efforts. His background blends distributed systems research (NDN/ICN) with production-grade tooling: he contributed to ndnSIM/nfd-status enhancements including XML/IPv6 support and RIB visualization to enable web-based NFD monitoring. Chengyu’s strengths are in bridging deep protocol-level understanding with pragmatic engineering—automating triage, safeguarding management commands, and accelerating deployments to reduce outages. He’s comfortable moving between low-level networking research and large-scale storage performance tuning, often turning academic ideas into operational tools.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Southwest UniversityMaster's degree Information and Communication Engineering, Master's degree Information and Communication Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
management10
net10
http-server10
manage10
networkmanager10
python10
network-protocol10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
xml9
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
named-data-ndnSIM/ndnSIM
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
ndnSIM: NS-3 based NDN simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chengyu primarily focused on enhancing the `nfd-status` tool, a utility for querying the status of the NDN Forwarding Daemon (NFD). They implemented features to display NFD status in XML format, support IPv6, and visualize RIB (Routing Information Base) data. The user also worked on improving the HTTP server component by adding XML support and serving the information, with the intent of providing a web interface for the monitoring of NFD.
simulatorsimulationndnns-3
chengyu/ndn-examples
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 9 months
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