Shiwei Zhang
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolShiwei Zhang is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 8 years of professional experience building and leading teams for Azure Container Registry and secure software supply chain initiatives. He blends deep cryptography training (PhD) with hands-on backend and DevOps engineering, notably as a main contributor to the widely used ORAS project implementing OCI push/pull and tooling. Shiwei has progressed from individual contributor to principal manager while driving features like repository-scoped permissions, Customer Managed Keys, and container signing across ACR. A quick learner and independent researcher, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic production design and refactoring discipline. Based in Shanghai, he quietly combines developer ergonomics, security-first architectures, and open-source stewardship—summed up by his GitHub mantra: "Happy Hacking."
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cryptography, Graduated, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cryptography, Graduated at University of Wollongong
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
occi10
docker10
go10
dockers10
command-line-tool9
cicd7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
oras-project/oras
Dec 2018 - Jun 2022
OCI registry client - managing content like artifacts, images, packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1233 reviews, 76 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shiwei primarily contributed to the development of the OCI registry client. The user implemented OCI push and pull functionality, which included the creation of a memory store and the related logic for pushing and pulling files. In addition to the core functionality, the user made adjustments to the schema version. Furthermore, the user added the necessary command-line tools for pushing and pulling, as well as improved the code by refactoring.
containersclient-registrydockeroci-registryartifacts
shizhMSFT/oras-go
Nov 2021 - Dec 2024
ORAS Go library
Contributions:2 PRs, 228 pushes, 79 branches in 3 years 2 months
golanggo-libraryoras
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