Haining Zhang
Chief Architect, China R&D VMware
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHaining Zhang is a seasoned software architect and open-source leader with over two decades of experience, currently serving as Chief Architect for China R&D at VMware. He founded and still maintains Harbor, the CNCF-hosted container registry with 12,000+ GitHub stars, and contributes across backend, DevOps and UI areas—demonstrating hands-on ownership from init-password logic to deployment scripts. A former Cloud Architect at IBM and long-time platform engineer on Cloud Foundry and OpenStack, he blends deep systems architecture skills with product-facing delivery across finance, telecom, internet and mobility domains. Haining is also an author and educator—writing the Harbor Authoritative Guide and co-authoring bestselling blockchain books in Chinese—reflecting his expertise in cloud native, blockchain and AI/ML. Fluent in English and Chinese, he pairs technical breadth with proven team leadership and mentoring, often turning complex distributed-system requirements into pragmatic, large-scale implementations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at South China University of TechnologyMsc, Computing Science, Msc, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (11)
go10
cloud-native10
devops10
back-end-development10
dockers9
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
docker9
kubernetes9
javascript8
helm7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
goharbor/harbor
Mar 2016 - Jun 2019
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:200 commits, 102 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Haining contributed to the core functionality of the Harbor project, including updating the init password functionality within the main application. They also made modifications to the deployment scripts and configuration, specifically to the Docker Compose file, selecting image sources. Furthermore, the user was involved in the modification of UI components such as replication lists and search directives, with associated changes in locale message files. These contributions span both backend and DevOps aspects of the project.
container-managementstorestrustedhelmdocker
hainingzhang/articles
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Articles on technical topics such as blockchain, container and IoT.
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
blockchaindockeriot
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