Zheng Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Okta
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZheng Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems and developer tooling across fast-moving companies from Zhihu to CircleCI and now Okta. He has a strong track record migrating large Python services to Go with dramatic cost and latency reductions, designing traffic-intensive recommendation systems, and standardizing service architectures to help teams ship faster. Zheng contributed to the open-source SMARTS autonomous driving simulator at Huawei, improving core reliability and debugging complex data-replay and process-leak issues. Comfortable working with researchers and product teams alike, he combines systems-level performance tuning with pragmatic engineering (e.g., shipping MVP APIs and internal tooling) to deliver measurable business impact. Based in Toronto, he brings a proven ability to modernize legacy stacks and enforce consistent service standards across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree software engineering, Bachelor's degree software engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
python10
reinforcement-learning9
autonomous-driving9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
huawei-noah/SMARTS
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Scalable Multi-Agent RL Training School for Autonomous Driving
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 reviews, 43 commits, 89 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zheng primarily focused on modifying the core codebase, including updating the package description and version in the `setup.py` file. They also contributed to debugging efforts, by commenting out a test function in `test_observations.py`. Furthermore, the user added copyright headers to various files and fixed the `twistd` process leaking issue and also fixed data replay issue by re-ordering the parameters.
autonomous-drivingmulti-agentreinforcement-learningpythonsimulator
liamchzh/liamchzh.github.com
Mar 2015 - Sep 2025
My Blog
Contributions:5 PRs, 146 pushes, 3 branches in 10 years 7 months
my-blogjekyll
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