Zhenguo Niu
Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Technologies
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenguo Niu is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience focused on cloud computing, OpenStack, and distributed filesystems like GlusterFS. Based in Haidian District, Beijing, he has driven backend work for OpenStack projects (Horizon, Nova, Ironic) and contributes as Mogan PTL to improve bare-metal provisioning and dashboard usability. At Huawei he's helped maintain and extend Terraform providers for major clouds, adding features and hardening tests for services like compute, RDS, GaussDB and VPN Gateway. His contributions commonly target stability and edge-case correctness—examples include MAC matching fixes in Ironic and password/logout workflow improvements in Horizon. Comfortable working across large open-source ecosystems, he blends deep systems understanding with practical engineering that reduces deployment failures in production clouds. An often-overlooked strength is his steady focus on test refactoring and resource extraction, which improves long-term maintainability of cloud provider integrations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Minzu University of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
distributed-ledger-technology10
testing10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
distributed-ledger10
iron10
terraformer10
go10
openstack10
irony10
blockchain10
backend10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
huaweicloud/terraform-provider-huaweicloud
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Terraform HuaweiCloud provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 473 reviews, 16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhenguo primarily contributed to the Huawei Cloud Terraform provider by adding new attributes (`created_at`, `updated_at`) to the compute instance resource, enhancing the functionality. They addressed an issue related to the `dnNum` parameter within the GaussDB (database) service, specifically for the OpenGauss version. Additionally, the user refactored test configurations, extracted base resources, and fixed issues related to test cases for the RDS (database) and VPN Gateway.
huaweicloudterraformterraform-providerhuawei-cloud
openstack/horizon
Mar 2013 - Jun 2016
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zhenguo contributed to the OpenStack Horizon dashboard by implementing features related to user password management, including allowing users to change their own passwords and adding a logout mechanism upon password updates by administrators. They also added enhancements related to security group rules by adding rule templates and correcting an exception related to CIDR configurations. Additionally, the user worked on console type settings, image details display, pagination of tenant views, and various other bug fixes and enhancements across different components of the dashboard.
openstack
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