Hui Zhen
Tech Lead at ByteDance
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHui Zhen is a tech lead with 6 years of industry experience building and shipping high-profile mobile games and real-time systems from Beijing. Currently leading a 20+ R&D team at ByteDance, he drove Gril Chronicle to a top-3 rank on Japan’s App Store and previously led the China and Asia versions of Command & Conquer: Red Alert mobile titles with Tencent and EA partnerships. His background spans engine architecture, shading, performance optimization for mobile, and large-team delivery—skills honed across multiple successful commercial releases with millions of installs. Academically grounded with a master’s in software engineering and a Tsinghua-MIT Global MBA, he blends deep technical craft with product and business acumen. An active contributor to low-level network I/O work (notably refactoring UDP/multicast transports in the yasio C++ async socket library), he retains hands-on expertise in asynchronous networking and performance-critical code. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who moves between code, architecture, and cross-studio coordination to turn ambitious game designs into polished, scalable products.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityTsinghua-MIT Global MBA, GMBA, Tsinghua-MIT Global MBA, GMBA at 清华大学经济管理学院 Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
Github Skills (7)
udp10
socket10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
asio10
multithreading9
c179
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simdsoft/yasio
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
A multi-platform support c++11 library with focus on asio (asynchronous socket I/O) for any client applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Hui primarily contributed to refactoring and optimizing the `yasio` library, focusing on UDP and multicast transports, as well as improving the interface for ease of use. They addressed compile errors, modified test cases, and made code improvements for readability. The changes indicate a focus on network socket programming and asynchronous I/O operations.
multi-threadingc-plus-plusmulti-platformlibuvios
huizhen/xxsocket
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
A mini and extremely simple cross platform socket wrapper APIs, support win32 & linux & ios & android & wp8 & wp8.1-universal & win10-universal
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 22 days
socketwindowsios-androidlinuxwin32
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