Kevin Zheng
Member Of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zheng is a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs with 11 years of experience building large-scale information retrieval, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, primarily using Go and Kubernetes. He has deep backend and DevOps expertise from contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Sourcegraph—working on org-level repo synchronization, search performance, and Bitbucket integrations—and practical observability and cloud foundations experience at Cockroach. Based in New York, he blends systems-level design with hands-on service configuration and optimization, focusing on robust, scalable repository and search pipelines. Notably, he moves fluidly between developer tooling and production infrastructure, surfacing efficiencies that improve repo fetching and search responsiveness at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
code-search10
go10
github-api10
bitbucket-server10
code-search-engine10
cicd9
devops9
code-intelligence9
graphql8
management8
repository-pattern8
repo-management8
git-repository8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 commits, 62 PRs, 267 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and service configurations of the Sourcegraph platform. Their work focused on enhancing the GitHub external service, specifically adding features for organization-level repository synchronization and optimizing repository fetching strategies. They also implemented and maintained search filters and performance improvements. Further, the user worked on the Bitbucket server integration, including plugin and webhook support and related infrastructure.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
kzh/digital-waveform
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year
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