Jane Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJane Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with six years of professional experience and a PhD in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology. She currently builds high-reliability systems at Bloomberg, bringing deep backend expertise and a focus on equity-related engineering. Jane is an active contributor to Ceph, improving the RADOS Gateway’s object storage, metadata handling, lifecycle features, and race-condition fixes—work that touches a widely used open-source distributed storage platform. Her contributions show an attention to subtle correctness and concurrency issues that benefit large-scale storage deployments. Prior roles across companies from gaming to instrumentation gave her broad exposure to system-level programming and production operations. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic solutions that balance performance, correctness, and maintainability.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD., Computer Science, PhD., Computer Science at Beijing Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
swift10
object-storage10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-systems9
data-storage8
aws-s38
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
storage7
distributed-file-system7
cloud-storage5
block-storage5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Feb 2020 - Apr 2025
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 27 PRs, 116 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jane primarily contributed to the RGW (RADOS Gateway) component of Ceph, focusing on object storage and notification functionalities. Their work involved reading object sizes, removing non `x-amz-meta-*` attributes, and preserving metadata names in Swift. They also addressed a bug related to bucket creation and implemented changes to the lifecycle (LC) feature. Furthermore, the user made a fix to avoid racing between part upload and multipart complete, demonstrating a strong grasp of the object storage system's underlying mechanisms.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
jzhu116-bloomberg/ceph
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
persistent-storageinfinibandflysystemfile-storageazure-blob-storage
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