Mingwei Zhang, PhD

Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare | Founder of BGPKIT

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Mingwei Zhang, Ph.D, is a full-stack Rust developer. He is currently a Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare. He is also the founder of BGPKIT, a software consulting company that builds open-source BGP data analysis toolkit. Previously, he worked as an Internet Data Scientist at Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). He worked on a wide range of data science tasks and is also a full-stack developer for a number of projects. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2019 from the University of Oregon.


Work Experience

Senior Systems Engineer

Cloudflare | 2022 - Present

As a Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, Mingwei Zhang builds complex high-throughput data pipelines and conduct data analysis on significant Internet routing events. Some of the projects he works on include:

Founder

BGPKIT | 2021 - Present

Founder of BGPKIT, a software consulting company that builds open-source BGP data analysis toolkit. The goal is to provide performant BGP data analysis building blocks for customers to extend and build their own workflow. BGPKIT also open-sources its software building blocks, here is a selected list of them:

Internet Data Scientist

CAIDA/SDSC | 2018 - 2021

Develop and maintain large-scale inter-domain routing security monitoring system, responsible for both front-end and back-end development. Study Internet routing anomalies and research methodologies on analyzing and categorizing anomalies.

  • Languages: Python, C, PHP, Javascript, Rust
  • Frameworks: Symfony, React
  • Tools: Jupyter, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL