Li Zheng
Staff Engieer at VMWare Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLi Zheng is a Staff Engineer based in Palo Alto with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems at VMware. He specializes in Go concurrency and backend engineering, demonstrated by contributions to an open-source CS knowledge repo where he implemented and hardened mutexes, sync.Once singletons, and channel-based patterns to prevent goroutine leaks. Known for a pragmatic, analytical approach—echoed in his GitHub motto "知其然，知其所以然"—he combines deep systems understanding with practical bug-fixing and testing discipline. Comfortable operating at both design and implementation levels, he consistently turns complex concurrency problems into maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
golang10
channel10
go10
mutex10
concurrency10
mux10
testing10
linux4
macos4
network4
databases4
osdev4
database4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SmartKeyerror/Psyduck
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Record CS knowlegement with XMind, version 2.0. 使用 XMind 记录 Linux 操作系统，网络，C++，Golang 以及数据库的一些设计
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 82 pushes, 10 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Li primarily contributed to the backend of the project, focusing on concurrency concepts within the Go language. Their work involved implementing and testing mutexes, read-write mutexes, and exploring the use of `sync.Once` for implementing the Singleton pattern. The user also addressed concurrency issues with channels, specifically focusing on alternate printing patterns and goroutine leak scenarios, while also making bug fixes. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of Go's concurrency primitives.
golangxmindlinuxdatabaserecord
SmartKeyerror/SmartKeyerror
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes in 10 months
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