Dennis Zhou
Software Engineer at Cruise
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Zhou is a systems-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining kernel-level infrastructure, currently on Cruise's Kernel Team. He is the tree maintainer for Linux's percpu memory allocator and related libraries (percpu_refcount), with long-standing contributions merged into mainline Linux and a public percpu repo. His background spans top-tier infrastructure roles at Snowflake, Google (Remote Flash Team), and Facebook, plus research work at UW–Madison and Microsoft, giving him strong roots in storage, concurrency, and low-level performance. A practiced C++ engineer, he blends research rigor with production-first engineering—an approach reflected in shipping kernel patches that land in widespread releases. Notably, his early Linux kernel work from internship days has evolved into stewardship of critical kernel primitives relied on by many subsystems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Sciences, Master of Science (MS), Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (100)
notification10
async9
sdk9
aes-encryption9
code-completion9
networking9
tasks9
oauth9
server-client-communication9
native-code9
termux9
aes9
bit9
sqlcipher8
api8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bbqz007/xw
Jun 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 162 commits, 164 pushes in 5 years 4 months
bbqz007/zhelper
Sep 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:232 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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