Cathy Zhang
Principal Software Engineer at Confluent
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarCathy Zhang is a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading Intel’s Cloud SW Engineering team to optimize performance, scalability, affordability, and security on Intel hardware. She defines cloud-native strategy and drives company-wide open source contributions, bringing prior experience building a serverless platform and a global resource orchestration and scheduling system at Futurewei/Huawei. An influential industry voice, Cathy serves on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, has chaired tracks at KubeCon and OpenStack Summits, co-authored CNCF specifications, and delivered a KubeCon NA keynote for Intel. She holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and is named on 18 US-granted patents with more pending, reflecting a strong record of invention as well as execution. Based in Palo Alto, she blends hands-on systems design with strategic advising to executives, often translating research-level ideas into production-ready cloud platforms.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
kubernetes10
docker10
cloudevents10
aws10
specification10
serverless10
alibabacloud10
go9
governance8
scheduling8
scheduler8
cloud-platform8
listings7
kubernetes-monitoring7
mesos7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cathyhongzhang/global-resource-scheduler
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Arktos for large-scale cloud platform
Contributions:18 PRs, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
cloud-scalescalecloudlarge-scalecloud-platform
cathyhongzhang/spec
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
CloudEvents Specification
Contributions:35 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
specificationcloudevents
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