Fam Zheng
Senior Kernel Engineer at TikTok
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFam Zheng is a senior kernel engineer with 15 years of experience building and optimizing cloud IaaS platforms, Linux kernel subsystems, and virtualization stacks across major players like TikTok, AWS, ByteDance, and Red Hat. He architects high-performance solutions for KVM, Xen, Nitro, virtio and nested virtualization, with a strong track record in storage drivers, hypervisors and EC2 performance tuning. Based in Cambridge, he blends deep systems-level expertise with practical production impact, driving platform scalability and low-level performance wins. Notably, his career moves show repeated focus on cloud-native virtualization and kernel-level troubleshooting—an uncommon combination that bridges vendor-grade virtualization work with large-scale cloud operations.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System, Master's degree, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System at Tongji UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Science and Technology Beijing
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (102)
testing10
test-framework10
tcm10
bcc10
serve10
linux10
pattern10
debugging10
executable10
prepare10
userspace10
unit-testing10
system-testing10
networking10
uds10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
famz/linux
Apr 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 12 branches in 9 years 7 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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