Rong Zheng
Senior Software Engineer at Tencent
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRong Zheng is a Senior Software Engineer based in Shenzhen with 12 years of experience building high-performance backend systems at Tencent. He has deep C++ and distributed systems expertise, contributing to PaxosStore — a storage service running on thousands of machines and handling billions of peak TPS for WeChat. His background spans lead programming roles and 3D engine development, reflecting a blend of low-level systems thinking and applied graphics/engine work. Trained in Automatic Control at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, he brings rigorous engineering discipline to large-scale production services. Known for pragmatic refactoring and performance-focused feature work, he often improves test harnesses and database interaction layers that keep mission-critical services reliable. Quietly, he pairs legacy code modernization with practical additions that reduce operational risk at scale.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Automatic Control, BS, Automatic Control at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sql-database9
database9
relational-databases9
leveldb9
databases9
testing8
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tencent/paxosstore
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
PaxosStore has been deployed in WeChat production for more than two years, providing storage services for the core businesses of WeChat backend. Now PaxosStore is running on thousands of machines, and is able to afford billions of peak TPS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 45 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rong's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating C++ code within the `PaxosStore` repository. The code changes focus on adding and modifying functionality within the stress test and user worker modules. These modifications encompass improvements for compilation, refactoring unused code, and the introduction of new features related to database interaction.
backendwechatpaxosdatabasedistributed-database
codeeply/leveldb
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
to-stringstringkeysleveldbmapping
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