Mingcheng Zhu
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingcheng Zhu is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building low-level, cloud and OS-focused infrastructure, currently contributing to Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner team. He has a strong track record in Linux systems and container tooling—contributing fixes and package updates to the high-profile microsoft/azurelinux repo to harden VM interactions and address CVEs. Previously on the Azure Sphere OS team and earlier at Tencent, he implemented performant streaming algorithms and production-grade Java components for time-series analytics. Mingcheng pairs rigorous academic training from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley with practical DevOps and backend engineering skills, and his work often targets subtle, real-world reliability issues (for example preventing unnecessary kernel CD-ROM probes) that improve system stability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, Natural Sciences, High School Diploma, Natural Sciences at The High School Affiliated To Beijing Normal UniversitySummer School, Economics, 4.0, Summer School, Economics, 4.0 at Harvard University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
azure10
linux10
container10
docker10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
cicd9
kernel-mode9
kernel9
system-administration9
go8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 146 PRs, 399 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mingcheng primarily contributed to the Azure Linux OS repository, addressing issues related to the operating system's interaction with Azure VMs. They implemented patches to prevent unnecessary probing of CD-ROM devices, improving system performance by avoiding kernel warnings. Additionally, the user worked on updating the kata-containers and moby-containerd-cc packages. They also synchronized the repository with the new versions of kata-containers and kernel-mshv, and the CVE fix.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
miz060/AgentBaker
May 2023 - Oct 2023
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches, 33 tags in 5 months
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