Jinglei Ren
Founder And CEO at Merico
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolJinglei Ren is a founder and CEO with 13 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering research and developer tooling, currently leading Merico to quantify and amplify developer value. He holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua and brings deep systems expertise from roles at Microsoft Research, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon, with work spanning software systems, memory, operating systems and smartphone filesystems. As an open-source steward—co-founding projects like Apache DevLake and SubLang—he blends academic rigor with product-driven engineering to build analytics platforms that integrate into real development workflows. Based in Beijing, he is driven by a mission to empower every developer to create and capture more value, pairing technical depth with entrepreneurial focus.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityB.E. Software Engineering, B.E. Software Engineering at Northeast Normal University
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Github Skills (82)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
basicthinker/Sexain-MemController
Feb 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:255 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
merico-dev/OpenMARI
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
The software productivity metrics and Measure-Analyze-Review-Improve framework.
Contributions:129 commits, 10 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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