Fred Zheng
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Lyft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFred Zheng is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with deep expertise in distributed systems, storage, and data pipelines built over a 15+ year engineering career. He currently contributes to Confluent’s Kafka Storage team and previously led data pipeline and CDC initiatives at Lyft, owning large-scale MongoDB operations and live migration pipelines for multi-billion document systems. At EMC he architected cloud storage infrastructure, geo-aware load balancing, and containerized deployments that reduced costs and earned company recognition, reflecting a pragmatic focus on performance and operability. Fred combines low-level systems work (device drivers and storage stacks) with large distributed service design, making him comfortable across stacks from OS drivers to cloud services. He is notable for designing tooling and automation—test frameworks, stress tools, and DevOps solutions—that turned complex projects into manageable, repeatable operations. Based in Seattle, he brings a hands-on engineering leadership style that balances performance tuning, design review, and production reliability.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Bachelor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (19)
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
graphite-carbon8
jmxtrans8
jmx6
java-agent6
exporter6
agent4
mgo2
driver1
mongodb-driver1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhengyd2014/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
zhengyd2014/leetcode
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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