Mingwei Zhang is a Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare with 12 years of experience building observability pipelines and tooling for Internet-scale routing data. He combines a strong research background—a PhD focused on DDoS defense and inter-domain routing security—with hands-on engineering in Rust, Python, and modern web stacks like React and Next.js. As founder and maintainer of BGPKIT, he publishes open-source tools that power BGP monitoring and analysis used by practitioners and researchers. His prior work at CAIDA and the University of Oregon reflects deep expertise in measurement-driven network security and data science. Based in San Diego, he excels at turning academic insight into production systems that watch and protect global routing infrastructure. A less obvious strength is his blend of kernel and web experience—from a Red Hat QA internship to shipping frontend interfaces—enabling him to bridge low-level systems and user-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 3.8, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 3.8 at University of Oregon
BS, Networking Engineering, BS, Networking Engineering at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
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