Huabing Zhao
Software Engineer at Aeraki Mesh(CNCF Project)
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHuabing Zhao is a senior software engineer and founder of the CNCF Aeraki Mesh project with over 15 years of experience building large-scale, cross-country systems now running in production. He specializes in cloud-native networking and service-mesh technologies, contributing deeply to Istio, Envoy, and Envoy Gateway while shaping Tetrate’s Envoy- and Istio-based products. His work spans backend and DevOps engineering—optimizing Consul integration, multi-network support, meta-protocol proxying, and UDP/HTTP route translation—reflecting a focus on stability, performance, and protocol extensibility. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator and published author on Istio and distributed tracing, he has driven production service-mesh deployments at Tencent and supported high-profile events like the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond code, he mentors open-source communities as a maintainer and PTL alumnus (ONAP) and shares technical insights through talks and a technical blog. An interesting detail: Aeraki has been adopted by major Chinese cloud and streaming platforms to extend Istio to non-HTTP layer‑7 protocols, demonstrating practical impact beyond academia.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Chongqing University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (42)
env10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
hugo-theme10
envoyproxy10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
css10
http10
ca-api-gateway10
microservices-application10
cnc10
aws-apigateway10
consul10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
zhaohuabing/hugo-theme-cleanwhite
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
A clean, elegant blog theme for hugo
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 22 reviews, 153 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Huabing primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Hugo theme. They fixed site search and CSS issues, and added a search menu item for smaller screens. They also updated the footer to include a GitHub star counter and linked to the Hugo theme site, and implemented lazy loading of images using the lazysizes library. Furthermore, the user added support for the Bilibili video shortcode and adjusted image display styles.
hugohugo-themeclean
aeraki-mesh/aeraki
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Manage any layer-7 protocols in a Service Mesh.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 162 reviews, 311 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Huabing primarily focused on updating and maintaining the codebase to align with new Istio releases (e.g., Istio 1.8.0). Their contributions involved modifying configuration files and integrating updated Istio dependencies, which involved updating go.mod and related configurations. They also contributed to code improvements such as incorporating fixes and adding features related to Dubbo and Thrift protocol support within the project.
golangmeshredisenvoytrpc
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