Joseph Zhang
Principal Platform Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Zhang is a Principal Platform Engineer with about a decade of experience delivering scalable back-end and cloud-native systems in Java, Node.js, and Kubernetes-driven DevOps. Based in Vancouver, he leads platform initiatives at Absolute Software, driving Java microservices, Kubernetes migrations for 100+ services, and modernization of legacy apps into cloud-native solutions. His prior work includes AWS EKS-focused software development, delivering resilient, scalable infrastructure for enterprise deployments. He’s recognized for hands-on execution and strategic migration planning, earning the quarterly Absolute Values Aware award for transitioning a main customer-facing site from Ember 1.x to a modern React stack. With a background in statistics and security (UBC certificate in Network Systems and Security) and earlier Android/mobile work, he combines technical breadth with practical, production-grade leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Business Administration, Associate's degree, Business Administration at Beihang UniversityStatistics, Statistics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaCertificate, Network Systems and Security Professional, Certificate, Network Systems and Security Professional at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (157)
messaging10
github10
package-management10
message-queue10
fits10
argocd10
ci-cd10
declarative10
k8s10
portable10
triggers10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
azure-devops10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jzhn/argo-cd
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
jzhn/renovate
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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