Dongli Zhang
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDongli Zhang is a seasoned systems engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience in operating systems, virtualization, and block storage, currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle in Redwood City. He has deep expertise in KVM/QEMU/Xen internals, PV/virtio/vhost drivers, VFIO/IOMMU, and block stacks like blk-mq and NVMe, and routinely authors upstream patches across Linux, Xen, and QEMU. At Oracle he has sustained Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, resolving escalations, backporting fixes, and adding features while also presenting at venues like Xen Summit. His background spans research in virtualization security (Stony Brook University) and practical kernel hardening work (Samsung KNOX), reflecting a blend of academic rigor and production-first engineering. Though primarily focused on virtualization and storage, he frequently tackles networking issues, demonstrating versatility across low-level subsystems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Shandong University of Science and TechnologyBAC+4, Computer Science & Information Technology, BAC+4, Computer Science & Information Technology at SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information TechnologyJinan Foreign Language SchoolMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (12)
smp3
libc3
ansi3
ansi-c3
x862
unix2
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x86-642
driver1
rdma1
windows-driver1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
finallyjustice/codereading
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:467 commits, 712 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
finallyjustice/security
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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