Zeling Feng is a systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building networking and kernel-level infrastructure at Google from Sunnyvale. He blends system programming and functional programming interests, with hands-on work on Fuchsia's Netstack3 in Rust and kernel/networking contributions in Go/C++ for gVisor. His gVisor contributions improved TCP reliability and test coverage—adding PAWS testing, IPv6 extension header handling, and TCP options support—highlighting deep protocol-level knowledge and a test-driven approach. Educated at Fudan and Brown, he has a history of low-latency and systems work from algorithmic trading to face-platform engineering, and prefers solving subtle correctness and interoperability challenges that often go unnoticed.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering at Fudan University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Brown University
Contributions:66 commits, 14 comments, 19 issues in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Zeling primarily contributed to improving the `gvisor`'s TCP implementation, focusing on test accuracy and reliability. They corrected an issue in a TCP test regarding window size and made several improvements to packet impact tests by handling OTW Seq segments and adding support for TCP options and IPv6 extension headers. The user also introduced and tested PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) mechanism, demonstrating a deep understanding of TCP protocol.
Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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