Hao Jiang
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Jiang is a Staff Software Engineer based in Fort Collins with seven years of experience building highly available, clustered infrastructure for enterprise customers at GitHub. He focuses on clustering, replication, and HA solutions for GitHub Enterprise, and previously led teams as a Senior Software Engineering Manager, blending hands-on coding with engineering leadership. His background includes designing distributed cache and storage systems at NetApp and contributing to Azure DevOps platform reliability at Microsoft, reflecting deep expertise in scaling stateful services. Hao has improved test automation and reliability for notable open-source tools like GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities, helping ensure safe backup-and-restore workflows in production. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Clemson University where he researched dependable distributed algorithms, a thread that continues to inform his practical designs for resilient systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs research-grade rigor with a practical focus on operational robustness.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Clemson UniversityMS Computer Sciences, MS Computer Sciences at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
shellcheck10
bash10
testing10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
backup9
rsync8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
github/backup-utils
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 18 reviews, 155 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hao primarily focused on updating and maintaining the test suite for the `github/backup-utils` repository. Their contributions involved modifying existing test scripts, including those for backup and restore functionalities. They also worked on improving test coverage and addressing issues related to parallel execution and configuration. These changes were aimed at ensuring the reliability and functionality of the backup utilities.
backupsbackuprestoreenterprise
jianghao0718/markdown-portfolio
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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