Accela Zhao is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in cloud and distributed storage systems, currently at Microsoft after a progression from Software Engineer II to Senior roles. He contributes to OpenStack Cinder—improving reliability, test coverage, and preventing potential data integrity issues—reflecting a focus on robustness in block storage. Educated at Nanjing University (B.S./M.S. in Software Engineering), he has industrial experience across EMC, Cisco and Intel, blending hands‑on backend development with systems thinking. An active learner and blogger, he combines pragmatic bug‑fixing craftsmanship with an eye for long‑term architectural quality in large-scale cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at Nanjing University
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Accela primarily contributed to the OpenStack Cinder project by fixing bugs and improving code quality. Their commits focused on correcting indentation issues to meet coding standards, preventing potential data integrity problems, and addressing scenarios where the system might fail. They also worked on improving test coverage and ensuring correct behavior within the block storage service.
Contributions:307 commits, 271 pushes, 1 comment in 8 years 9 months
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Accela Zhao - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft