I'm Zhi Sheng, a computer science undergraduate with an interest in UX, databases, and distributed systems. I enjoy reading (mostly sci-fi and fantasy) and running.
Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn.
- Elon Musk
- The Secret History
⏸️ Rebuilding spaced to be a local-first PWA. (paused - learning how to handle local-first synchronisation)
⏸️ Browser-based, local-first EPUB reader.
Doing some interesting online courses:
- MIT Distributed Systems
- ✅ MapReduce
- ✅ KVStore
- 🔄 Raft
- CMU Database Systems
- ✅ Buffer Pool Manager
- 🔄 Concurrent B+Tree
Read some interesting papers:
- Interned at some cool startups
- Built a spaced-repeition web-app
- and a collaborative coding interview platform
- Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, C++, SQL (mainly TS, more Go and C++ in 2025)
- Frameworks and Libraries: React, Next.js, Flask, Hono, Express, Spring Boot, GraphQL
- Databases and ORMs / ODMs: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prisma, Drizzle, MongoEngine
- Tool and Technologies: Git, Docker, AWS (Step Functions, Lambda), Cloudflare Workers