Siming Weng
Principal Engineer at Cloudera
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSiming Weng is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and shipping software across desktop, mobile, and distributed systems, now focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Cary, NC, he combines hands-on architecture and coding with DevOps expertise, improving build and deployment pipelines for projects like the official Kubernetes Java client. His background includes deep work on real-time distributed systems (Apache Heron) and production-grade checkpointing and state management, reflecting a strong systems and reliability mindset. Known for modernizing build environments, automating CRD schema validation, and upgrading complex dependencies, he bridges development and operations to accelerate safe releases. Siming’s career progression from telecommunications and instrumentation to leading platform engineering at Cloudera highlights a practical, end-to-end perspective on scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Telecommunications Engineering at Donghua UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Technology at University of Nottingham
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
docker10
messaging10
kafka10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
crt10
javas10
heron10
kubernetes-pods10
streaming10
scripting9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-heron
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 41 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Siming contributed to the Apache Heron project by implementing features and resolving issues related to its core functionalities. They updated the project's configuration, including checkpoint management and stateful storage. The user also upgraded dependencies, particularly Apache Bookkeeper, and addressed bug fixes related to saving and restoring checkpoints from distributed logs. Additionally, the user worked on setting up Kafka Spout and Kafka Bolt in this project, which includes implementing a Kafka Bolt and related unit tests.
fault-tolerantrealtimedata-streamfaultstream
kubernetes-client/java
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Official Java client library for kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Siming focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the Kubernetes client library. Contributions include creating a Docker image to generate model classes, adding CRD status validation to the build process, and implementing an automated CRD schema check. They also updated the build environment and dependencies.
client-libraryjavakubernetesjava-client
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