Summary
Chenyang Zhao is a Member of Technical Staff and core developer with nine years of experience building systems and research tooling across industry and academia. Based in Shanghai with ties to the U.S., he maintains SGLang and contributes to open-source projects while balancing roles at RadixArk and the sgl-project. His background blends deep research—PhD work at UCLA and research stints at CMU, Tsinghua, and AWS AGI Lab—with practical system design in companies like ByteDance and WizardQuant. He focuses on ML systems and RL infrastructure, tackling hard problems such as training–inference mismatch and scalable research pipelines. Known among peers as a quietly persistent coder (一枚默默奋斗的小小码农), he brings both academic rigor and production-hardened engineering to bridge theory and deployment.
10 years of coding experience