Mingwei Zhang, PhD
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- Greater San Diego Area, US
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
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:
- Cloudflare Radar: Up to date Internet trends and insight
- Cloudflare Route Leak Detection: Global BGP route leak detection
- Cloudflare BGP Hijack Detection: Global BGP hijack detection
Founder
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:
- bgpkit-broker: global BGP archive data indexer
- bgpkit-parser: performant and extensible MRT/BGP data parser
- monocle: BGP data utility tool
Internet Data Scientist
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