Bolun Zhao
Principal Software Engineer at F5
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBolun Zhao is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building internet-scale, high-performance systems across cloud, networking, and storage domains. Currently at F5 after leading Kubernetes networking work on Anthos and GKE at Google, he specializes in low-latency dataplane features and cloud-native networking primitives. His background includes high-performance NVMe-backed services at Amazon and platform engineering for financial analytics at FactSet, giving him a strong systems and production-operational mindset. An active contributor to the widely used Cilium project, he implemented control-plane logic and egress gateway features that integrate eBPF-based networking with Kubernetes APIs. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bolun combines deep systems engineering with practical DevOps experience to ship robust, scalable infrastructure. He holds a MS in Computer Science from UC Davis and a BS from Peking University.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
container9
cni9
api8
security8
bpf8
apidoc8
dockers7
yaml7
docker7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:158 reviews, 7 PRs, 169 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bolun primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the Cilium project, specifically focusing on the egress gateway feature. Their work involved adding configuration options for the egress gateway, enabling tunnel mode under specific conditions, and refactoring tunnel mode configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented custom resources and event handlers for the Egress NAT Gateway, demonstrating control plane logic related to handling endpoint updates and applying corresponding updates to the egress map. This work also involved integrating with Kubernetes APIs.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
blzhao-0/cilium
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
API-aware Networking and Security using eBPF and XDP
Contributions:1 PR, 126 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
bpfapiospfsecurityebpf
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