Wenhui Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenhui Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of experience building secure, high-performance distributed systems at the intersection of OS, runtimes, and security. She holds a PhD from Penn State and has driven system and infrastructure innovations at ByteDance—delivering private-cloud AICC platforms, privacy sandboxes, and TEE-backed databases—and now contributes to Roblox’s systems stack. Her research and engineering work spans CXL memory and ASIC-based optimizations, trusted execution environments, lightweight container/sandbox reuse, and safety guardrails for large language models. An active contributor to conferences (Eurosys, OSDI, SOSP, NeurIPS, AAAI) and open-source projects, she earned multiple awards for product and research impact and serves in several program committees and community leadership roles. Colleagues describe her as inquisitive and pragmatic: she routinely balances performance trade-offs with formal security guarantees, e.g., by relaxing consistency or syscall semantics in principled ways to achieve deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD- all but dissertation Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD- all but dissertation Computer Science at The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD System Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD System Security at Penn State University
Github Skills (200)
kvm10
scheduling10
specification10
serverless10
isolation10
cri-o10
spawning10
k8s10
mesos10
firecracker10
qemu10
api10
forum10
kubernetes-monitoring10
hardware10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wenhuizhang/gw-kv-store
Apr 2015 - Nov 2018
In-class final project: Key Value Store
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
redisin-classnodejsdatabasekey-value-store
wenhuizhang/qemu
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
linuxqemusubmitpull-requestswiki
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