Zhiwei Liang
Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiwei Liang is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in developer tools, cloud SDKs, and infrastructure automation with three years of hands-on experience at Akamai's Linode developer experience team. He has built and maintained core integrations and tooling—including Terraform, Ansible, Salt Cloud, Packer, CLI and SDKs in Python and Go—bridging developer workflows with cloud infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Linode provider in the widely used Salt project by refactoring legacy APIs, adding backup scheduling, and adding integration tests. Comfortable across back-end, DevOps and CI/CD domains, he brings practical experience from internships at PTC and startups and a strong academic background from Arizona State, Rice and a visiting stint at Stanford. Notably, he prefers building pragmatic engineering solutions over competitive algorithm puzzles.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Computer Science - MCS, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science - MCS, Computer Science at Rice UniversityVisiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
apim10
configuration-management10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
saltstack10
api10
cloud-computing10
python10
devops9
infrastructure-as-code9
test-automation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhiwei primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Linode cloud integration within the SaltStack project. Their work included updating documentation, refactoring code to remove legacy API usage, and adding features such as backup scheduling. They also implemented integration tests and fixed configuration issues related to the Linode cloud provider, contributing to both back-end functionality and infrastructure management.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
zliang-akamai/linode_api4-python
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Official Python bindings for the Linode API
Contributions:1 release, 38 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 10 months
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