Summary
Zheng Li is a Linux Kernel Senior Principal Engineer with 9 years focused on high-performance network and storage stacks, currently driving TCP/IP and storage IO improvements at Dell Technologies. He has deep hands-on experience across TCP/IP, RDMA, NVMe-oF, SCSI/SAS and associated drivers, with a track record of diagnosing vmcore traces, fixing bottlenecks, and contributing patches upstream. Former roles at Oracle and Ericsson underpin his expertise in router and virtualization networking, kernel module development, and live-patch delivery for enterprise environments. He’s filed storage-related patents, contributed multiple TCP/IP patches to the Linux community, and earned a Game Changer award for resolving a critical network stack issue. Based in China, Zheng combines embedded systems roots with large-scale kernel performance tuning, often surfacing subtle cross-layer interactions between networking and storage that others miss.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Graduate School, The Chinese Academy of School Sciences