Zhinan Cheng
CDN Software Engineer at TikTok
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZhinan Cheng is a CDN-focused software engineer based in London with eight years of experience building high-performance content delivery and cloud infrastructure. He currently works on CDN systems at TikTok after a senior engineering role at Tencent Cloud and an algorithm-focused stint at Alibaba Cloud, blending production-scale engineering with research-driven problem solving. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a master’s from USTC, he brings strong academic rigor to practical system design. Zhinan is particularly skilled at optimizing distributed delivery pipelines and cache strategies for massive user bases, a niche honed across major cloud providers. Colleagues describe him as the “CDN guy” who can translate complex algorithms into reliable, low-latency production services.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zncheng/dramanalysis
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes in 4 months
zncheng/zncheng.github.io
Aug 2017 - Aug 2025
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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