Wei Cheng is a seasoned infrastructure platform leader with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale storage systems for top Chinese tech companies. Currently leading foundational platform efforts at ByteDance, he draws on deep hands-on expertise from four years as a storage engineer at WeChat where he contributed to PaxosStore—a production-grade distributed storage used at massive scale. He focuses on reliability and maintainability, contributing tests and fixes that improve core consensus and storage components and reduce build fragility. Comfortable bridging engineering and platform leadership, he combines a master's training in applied computer science with practical experience running systems at billions-of-TPS ambitions. An attentive problem-solver, he often surfaces non-obvious robustness improvements through targeted low-level tests and dependency cleanups.
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
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 24 days
Contributions summary:Wei primarily focused on enhancing and testing the PaxosStore codebase. They implemented tests for core components like `PInsAliveState` and `PLogWrapper`, ensuring the correct functionality of the system. The user also addressed build and compilation issues by fixing include paths and removing unnecessary headers. Their contributions are geared towards improving the reliability and maintainability of the PaxosStore system.
Contributions:60 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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