Jiaxiang Zhu
Sr. System Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJiaxiang Zhu is a Senior System Development Engineer at AWS specializing in infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and release engineering for the OpenSearch project. Over six years he has designed and maintained build and release pipelines—bringing multi-arch Docker builds, RPM/Deb packaging, performance testing, and automated promotion workflows into production. His hands-on work on the widely used opensearch-build and opendistro-build repos demonstrates a deep focus on reproducible releases and cross-platform automation. Prior roles at Macy’s involved migrating legacy datacenters to containerized Kubernetes platforms, showing he bridges legacy ops and cloud-native practices. Jiaxiang holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with a perfect GPA, reflecting strong theoretical grounding paired with practical delivery. Colleagues would describe him as an engineer who favors durable automation over ad-hoc fixes, making frequent behind-the-scenes improvements that keep large distributed projects shipping reliably.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA 4.00, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA 4.00 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA 3.84, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA 3.84 at Georgia State University
Chinese, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (30)
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
cd10
packaging10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
script10
aws10
ci-cd-pipeline10
packager10
package10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
opendistro-for-elasticsearch/opendistro-build
May 2020 - Dec 2021
🧰 Open Distro Build Scripts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 358 reviews, 352 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jiaxiang primarily focused on automating and improving the build and release process for the Open Distro for Elasticsearch project. Their contributions involved scripting and configuring various build workflows for different operating systems (Linux, Windows) and deployment targets (Docker, RPM, Deb, Tar). They also worked on creating and integrating tools for plugin version management, checksum generation, and artifact deployment, ensuring a more streamlined and reliable release pipeline. Further, they modified the CI/CD pipelines based on specific tasks such as adding the Kibana integration tests.
build-scriptslinuxdistro
opensearch-project/opensearch-build
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
🧰 OpenSearch / OpenSearch-Dashboards Build Systems
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 releases, 2076 reviews, 241 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter Zhu primarily focused on building and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines for the `opensearch-build` repository. His contributions involved creating and modifying scripts for tasks such as setting up runners, building and deploying docker images, and managing RPM package builds and promotions. Key contributions include implementing multi-arch image builds, integrating performance testing, and adding automated workflows for releases and artifact management, all while leveraging tools like Docker, Jenkins, and shell scripting.
dashboardsopensearch-dashboardsbuild-systemsopensearchdashboard
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