Wei Zhao — Seeking Network Programming Roles
📍 Shanghai | ✉️ [email protected] | 📞 +086-158-1125-7483
GitHub: zwpdbh | LinkedIn: zhao-wei-887052127
🔧 Functional Systems Engineer
Building resilient, concurrent network services with Elixir & Rust.
💼 Experience
Microsoft — Software Engineer (Nov 2021 – Jul 2025)
- Built CLI tools in Rust (clap, ractor) for Azure Container Storage E2E testing.
- Designed event-driven, long-haul tests; tracked AKS quality via Power BI.
- Developed C# chaos workloads for Azure Storage API reliability; maintained Service Fabric test platform.
Siemens PLM Software — Software Engineer (Oct 2018 – Oct 2021)
- Built AWS k8s admin service (Golang backend, Vue.js frontend).
- Maintained CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure.
ATOS (China) — Linux System Engineer (Feb 2012 – Jun 2015)
- Provided Linux sysadmin & SLA compliance for Volkswagen Group China.
🧩 Projects
Network Programming with Elixir (Protohackers)
- Solved Problems 1–8 — engineered a custom stateful protocol over UDP (Problem 07) managing sessions, ordering & timeouts.
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Leveraged Elixir’s actor model for concurrent UDP “sessions” — demonstrating low-level networking mastery beyond HTTP/TCP.
→ Code available on GitHub (zwpdbh/protohacker)
Elixir Full-Stack (Phoenix + LiveView)
- Re-implemented Scenario-Test platform with real-time UI.
F# Exploration (SAFE Stack)
- Explored full-stack functional architecture — deepening understanding of type-safe, message-driven patterns.
🛠️ Skills
- Core: Elixir, Rust, F# — Functional paradigms applied to systems design.
- Familiar: Golang, Python, JavaScript, C#, C++.
- DevOps: CI/CD, Azure & AWS.
🎓 Education
- MASc, Computer Science — University of Otago (2016–2018)
- BS, Computer Science — Beijing University of Technology (2004–2009)
🌐 Languages
- English: Fluent
- Mandarin: Native Speaker
Seeking next role focused on building high-performance, scalable network services, protocols, or distributed systems — powered by functional programming.