Summary
Li Cheng is a Staff Software Engineer and technical leader with 8 years of experience building large-scale object and data lake storage systems, currently driving Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS) and GooseFS for AI and big data workloads. He has deep expertise across object, block, and enterprise storage from roles at Tencent, Huawei, and as an early contributor to AWS S3 storage management and logging. An Apache Ozone and Hadoop committer/PMC, he blends production-grade distributed systems engineering with open-source stewardship. Li’s background in electrical and electronics engineering underpins a pragmatic focus on data reliability, indexing, and storage efficiency—skills honed implementing deduplication, compression, and persistence layers at scale. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on architecture work with team leadership, delivering storage platforms optimized for large AI data pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese