Caspar Zhang
Staff Engineer at Alibaba Cloud
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
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Top SchoolCaspar Zhang is a Staff Engineer at Alibaba Cloud with 15 years focused on Linux kernel, OS release engineering, and storage/KVM performance optimization. He leads Aliyun Linux distribution development and has driven kernel isolation and block-device caching projects that improved resource utilization and I/O performance for large-scale cloud services. A longtime contributor and maintainer in kernel test suites such as the Linux Test Project, he blends deep C and shell expertise with systems-level release and test automation. Based in Hangzhou, he pairs hands-on driver and kernel debugging experience with team leadership, and is actively hiring OS engineers to build Linux from scratch—bringing both product ownership and upstream-facing QA pedigree.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications中学, 中学, 中学, 中学 at Quzhou No. 2 High School Zhejiang
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
test-automation10
sh10
system-calls10
linux10
script10
shell10
c1110
linux-kernel10
scripting10
testing10
libc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
linux-test-project/ltp
Mar 2011 - May 2019
Linux Test Project (mailing list: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:123 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Caspar contributed to the Linux Test Project (LTP) by addressing bugs and implementing enhancements in various test cases. Their work involved fixing compilation issues, improving test case reliability, and updating test procedures. They demonstrated proficiency in C and shell scripting by modifying existing tests and integrating new features within the testing framework, impacting the quality and reliability of the Linux kernel testing suite.
unixposixtest-automationtest-projectmanjaro
casparant/bpftrace
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
Contributions:298 pushes, 28 tags in 4 years 7 months
bpftracingebpfhigh-levellinux
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