Mingyang Zheng
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMingyang Zheng is a Software Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems and backend infrastructure, currently contributing to Azure Compute at Microsoft. He holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Columbia and a B.S. from Beihang University, marrying strong systems theory with practical cloud engineering. Mingyang has a track record of designing streaming data pipelines, multi-tenant cloud platforms, and SSO integrations, and has shipped production features across Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, and Terraform-based deployments. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved widely used projects such as Telegraf and gopsutil—adding cross-platform system metrics support and hardening goroutine panic handling—demonstrating deep system-level and cross-OS expertise. Colleagues would note his blend of hands-on DevOps, low-level diagnostics, and a penchant for cleaning up messy logging and dependency issues that quietly improve observability and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 3.89, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 3.89 at Beihang UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.78, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.78 at Columbia University in the City of New York
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Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
develop10
system-programming10
wp-api10
microsoft-azure10
winapi10
go10
agent10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
logging10
ws-api10
dependency-management9
system-info9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Cloud provider for Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 22 commits, 26 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mingyang primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `cloud-provider-azure` repository, focusing on implementing and testing new functionality within the Azure cloud provider. Their work involved adding new methods to the ARM client interface, including functions to retrieve resources with queries and support for VMSS Flex VMs. Additionally, they wrote unit tests to ensure the correctness of the implemented functions. Their contributions also included adding caching mechanisms for VMSS Flex VMs.
azurecloud-providerskubernetesk8s-sig-cloud-provider
shirou/gopsutil
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
psutil for golang
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mingyang primarily contributed to the `gopsutil` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality for Windows and Linux systems. Their work involved fixing issues in disk I/O counters, adding support for collecting page fault counts on Windows, and merging changes. The user's changes involved modifying core functionalities and adapting existing features to different operating systems, indicating a strong understanding of system-level programming and cross-platform compatibility. The contributions improved the ability of the library to collect system information.
golangpsutilsystem-informationgo
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