Jay Zhuang
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Zhuang is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years building and scaling large-scale storage and database systems, currently working on FoundationDB storage at Snowflake. He has deep expertise in Cassandra and RocksDB—serving as an Apache Cassandra committer and contributing to RocksDB while driving storage work at Meta and Uber. Jay’s background spans AWS search services, SharePoint ECM, and enterprise storage, giving him strong end-to-end experience in distributed systems, ETL, and performance engineering. He also contributes to high-profile open-source projects like gVisor, improving cross-platform test coverage and syscall reliability for container kernels. Based in Shanghai with a master’s in computer science, he blends hands-on engineering with test-automation rigor and a track record of productionizing resilient storage infrastructure. An uncommon strength is his dual focus on low-level storage internals and robust test infrastructure that ensures portability and correctness across platforms.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at East China Normal UniversityBachelor Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
socket-io10
kernel10
linux10
socket10
go10
testing10
network-programming9
udp9
cprogramming-language9
container9
c-language9
fuchsia8
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/gvisor
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Application Kernel for Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the gVisor project by enhancing and maintaining the test suite. They focused on improving test infrastructure, as seen by the extraction of Linux-specific test setup, and porting tests to different platforms such as Fuchsia. This involved modifying existing test cases, adding new tests for UDP functionality and other syscalls to ensure the gVisor kernel's correct behavior and portability. Furthermore, the user also made enhancements to existing tests and added tests for SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO.
containerskernelseccomplinuxsandbox
jayzhuang/jayzhuang.github.io
Aug 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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