Zhiqiang Fan
Senior Software Engineer at Tencent
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolZhiqiang Fan is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience specializing in cloud and backend systems, currently building scalable services at Tencent from Shenzhen. He is a seasoned OpenStack contributor and former core member of telemetry projects (Ceilometer, Aodh, Panko), with deep hands-on experience diagnosing and fixing distributed cloud issues. Proficient in Python and comfortable across Linux, shell, C and Java, he has a strong track record improving code quality, tests and documentation in high-profile repos like OpenStack Neutron, Heat and Keystone. At Hewlett-Packard he worked on private cloud development, and his open-source work also spans multi-language SDKs for Tencent Cloud (Go, Python, Node, PHP), reflecting a cross-language backend focus. A quick learner with disciplined coding and documentation habits, he balances pragmatic maintenance (bug fixes, refactors, API correctness) with upstream community collaboration. Collected contributions show he not only implements features but also improves usability and reliability—e.g., fixing SDK examples, signature support and critical test/code hygiene in major cloud projects.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Software and Theory, Master of Science (MS), Computer Software and Theory at Peking University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
restructuredtext10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
rs10
n10
ceilometer10
php10
go10
openstack10
api10
sdk10
openstack-neutron10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/ceilometer
Sep 2013 - Jun 2016
OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:183 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Zhiqiang primarily focused on improving the codebase through bug fixes, refactoring, and addressing code quality issues within the OpenStack Ceilometer project. Their contributions included fixing i18n support in notification and publisher modules, removing redundant code from the nova_client, and implementing a fix to prevent the update combination alarm from specifying itself. The user also addressed several code style issues.
ceilometeropenstacktelemetry
TencentCloud/tencentcloud-sdk-php
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Tencent Cloud API 3.0 SDK for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 42 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zhiqiang primarily contributes to the PHP SDK for Tencent Cloud. The initial commit corrected example code, indicating a focus on code quality and usability. Subsequent commits updated APIs, bumped the version number, and addressed license-related issues. Later commits incorporated support for TC3 signatures and multipart API functionality, demonstrating work on core SDK functionality.
phptencent-cloud
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