Guangliang Zhao is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in kernel development, storage stacks, and file system design, currently driving low-level engineering at Alibaba Cloud in Beijing. He has deep hands-on expertise in block layer, LVM, Ceph, and HA components from roles at SUSE, Tencent, Sogou, and earlier embedded storage work that pushed a filter device driver to near-disk performance. Known for tackling challenging kernel problems, he combines systems-level design with pragmatic implementation and a fast-learning, collaborative approach. Guangliang is active in open-source culture and mentorship, translating complex storage requirements into robust, production-ready solutions. An interesting thread through his career is consistently improving storage performance and reliability across both enterprise Linux distributions and cloud-scale platforms.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Dalian University of Technology
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