Ziwen Ning
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZiwen Ning is a Senior Software Development Engineer at AWS with a decade of experience building scalable ML infrastructure and cloud-native tooling. At AWS Neuron he focuses on production-grade systems while contributing broadly to open-source projects—maintainer roles for runfinch, benchmark-action, and aws-neuron signal deep involvement in container and CI ecosystems. His contributions to containerd/nerdctl and Finch show hands-on expertise in registry interactions, image signing (Notation/Cosign), rootless and host-gateway networking, and robust CI/CD pipelines. Based in Bothell, WA, Ziwen blends backend, DevOps, and systems engineering to make developer workflows reliable and secure, and he brings an academic foundation from UC Irvine and Xidian University to complex infrastructure problems. An understated strength is his knack for improving developer experience through testing and installer automation that prevents subtle production issues.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Engineering Intelligent Science and Technology, Bachelor's of Engineering Intelligent Science and Technology at Xidian UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
github-ci10
docker10
containerd10
go10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
cicd10
testing9
configuration-management9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
runfinch/finch
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
The Finch CLI is an open source client for container development
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:188 reviews, 52 commits, 71 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ziwen primarily contributed to the CI/CD pipeline and testing infrastructure within the Finch CLI repository. They added workflows for installer tests, incorporating testing with specific configurations. The user also addressed issues related to configuration, particularly for additional directories, and fixing misleading logs. Additionally, they supported the `--add-host` flag and the special IP host-gateway configuration.
clicontainerdcontainerslima-vmnerdctl
containerd/nerdctl
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 1 commit, 16 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ziwen primarily contributed to the `nerdctl` project by implementing new features and making improvements related to container registry interactions and host-gateway functionality. They refactored the container stats command and added support for signing and verifying images using the Notation tool and Cosign. Furthermore, the user integrated volume mounting options, specifically supporting volumes-from configurations and SOCI image pushing.
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