Zheng Pan
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZheng Pan is a software engineer based in Sunnyvale with five years of professional experience and a strong foundation from Wuhan University and an MS in Computer Engineering from NYU. He currently engineers systems at Google after prior roles building high-performance networking and embedded software at Fortinet, where he shipped multiple product lines and implemented a session-aware load balancer and diagnostics that saved hundreds of debug hours weekly. Zheng contributes to cloud-native distributed storage in the datenlord project, improving its FUSE layer, adding CLI mount option parsing, migrating components to async, and enhancing performance tests—demonstrating a focus on storage, performance, and maintainability. He brings low-level systems expertise (kernel, GPIO, daemon design) combined with modern async backend development, making him effective across embedded, infrastructure, and cloud-native stacks. An understated strength is his knack for practical tooling and debug features that materially speed triage and product delivery.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Automation, Bachelor’s Degree, Automation at Wuhan UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.93/4.00, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.93/4.00 at New York University
Github Skills (9)
asynchronous10
command-line-parser10
rust10
async10
command-line10
fuse10
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
cicd5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
datenlord/datenlord
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
DatenLord, Computing Defined Storage, an application-orientated, cloud-native distributed storage system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:182 reviews, 52 commits, 71 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zheng primarily focused on enhancing the `fuse_ll` component, adding a command-line parser to handle mount options and updating the `clap` version. They also addressed code quality by fixing linting issues and removing dead code, improving the overall codebase maintainability. Furthermore, the user integrated the csi repo and refactored the code to an async version. They also added and enhanced fio perf test.
cloud-native
pzheng1025/datenlord
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
DatenLord, Computing Defined Storage, an application-orientated, cloud-native distributed storage system
Contributions:25 commits, 263 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 4 months
cloud-native
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