Honghui Xiao is a network engineering leader with 11+ years building large-scale cloud and IDC networking for major tech firms, currently leading Shopee’s Network Team in Singapore. He designs and implements Region-AZ network architectures, cloud networking software for containers and VMs, and DevOps tooling (Pingmesh, CMDB, IPAM) to improve stability for both consumer and financial products. His background includes launching ByteDance’s cloud network to thousands of servers and contributing to open-source projects like OpenStack Neutron and Dragonflow, with hands-on work in ML2 plugin fixes and DHCP/security enhancements. A CCIE and PMP certified technologist, he combines deep protocol-level expertise with people management and process design, and has presented at major networking conferences—hinting at a communicator who thrives translating complex network internals into reliable operational systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at 北京师范大学
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Honghui primarily contributes to the OpenStack Neutron project, focused on networking. Their work involves bug fixes and enhancements within the ML2 core plugin. These include addressing issues related to error handling in mechanism drivers and ensuring correct MTU retrieval based on physical network configurations, including the implementation of segment creation and deletion in ML2. The user also worked on DHCP agent improvements and security group updates.
Contributions:6 reviews, 360 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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