Francis Zhou
Senior Technical Program Manager - Google Cloud
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Zhou is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Google Cloud with two decades of engineering and program leadership experience spanning OS platforms, mobile, and cloud services. He combines deep technical fluency—grounded in early SDET and platform work at Microsoft and a Computer Science degree from UC Santa Cruz—with a customer-focused product mindset that translates real-world needs into actionable engineering requirements. Francis has driven platform reliability and developer productivity at scale, empowering thousands of engineers through KPIs, tooling, and education while securing privacy and business support for critical services. He also has a history of founding and scaling test orgs, shaping developer platforms like DirectInk, and contributing to more than a dozen patents in human-device interaction—an unusual blend of hands-on quality engineering, program orchestration, and IP-driven innovation.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
api-management10
kubernetes10
security10
consul10
proxies10
governance10
microservices10
ambient10
circuit-breaker9
service-mesh9
nomad9
resiliency9
observe9
golang9
fault-injection9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
SkyfireFrancisZ/community
Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
Istio governance material.
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
istiokubernetesgovernance
istio/community
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Istio governance material.
Contributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 2 branches in 6 months
governanceistio-authorsistiokubernetescommunity-meeting
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