Ian Zhang

Software Engineer at Microsoft

Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ian Zhang is a software engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native, Kubernetes-focused systems at Red Hat and Microsoft, where he delivered high-availability e-invoicing platforms and operator tooling. He specializes in Go and C#/ASP.NET Core for large-scale distributed backends, having designed AKS architectures that met 99.9% SLAs and cut compute costs by half. Ian has a track record of improving operator performance and test coverage—reducing deployment times from an hour to ten minutes and slashing Kubernetes API calls by 90%—while automating CI/CD and telemetry pipelines. Comfortable in on-call rotations and cross-team collaboration, he pairs strong engineering rigor with practical product impact. His background in embedded systems and a master’s in electrical engineering gives him an uncommon systems-level perspective on cloud and edge integrations.
code6 years of coding experience
job6 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA 3.7/4, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA 3.7/4 at Western University
bookBachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, GPA 3.7, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, GPA 3.7 at Xi'an University of Technology
languagesEnglish, Chinese
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Github Skills (137)

tooling10
hat10
paradox10
prompt10
tooltips10
continuous-deployment10
textmate10
openshift10
completions10
windows-subsystem-for-linux9
sdk9
golang9
powershell9
powerline9
bash9

Programming languages (10)

C#ShellC++RustGoF#MarkdownVim Script

Github contributions (5)

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This repo intend to host tested e2e samples of the ACM application lifecycle
Contributions:16 PRs, 163 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
acmhostlifecyclee2etested
ianzhang366/acme-lsp

Dec 2021 - Dec 2022

Language Server Protocol tools for the acme text editor
Contributions:4 releases, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
server-protocollsplanguage-serverlanguage-server-protocoltext-editor
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Ian Zhang - Software Engineer at Microsoft