Jiaxiao Zhou
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiaxiao Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of experience building cloud-native and WebAssembly-powered infrastructure, currently working on Azure Upstream and agentic workflows. A Rust and open-source enthusiast, he helps maintain critical projects like containerd/runwasi and the Spin framework—an increasingly prominent OSS tool for running serverless apps with WebAssembly. His background spans Rust, Go, and cloud-native systems at Deis Labs and Azure, with applied experience in distributed systems, Kubernetes integrations, and developer tooling. Jiaxiao organizes the msft systems meetup and is a recognized contributor in the Bytecode Alliance, reflecting a strong community focus beyond day-to-day product work. He also publishes technical writing on developer tooling and systems at mossaka.com, showing a commitment to making advanced platforms more accessible. Notably, his contributions blend low-level runtime work (WASI/containerd) with pragmatic HTTP and event handling improvements in Spin, bridging runtime internals and developer-facing UX.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Glenelg Country School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
http10
serverless10
spin10
rust10
webassembly10
cloudevents9
wasmtime8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
spinframework/spin
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 17 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jiaxiao contributed to the development of the Spin framework, primarily focusing on adding features and improving the HTTP component. They added HTTP options, an event grid validation example, and handles event functionalities. They also refactored the code for better maintainability, as evidenced by cargo fmt & cargo clippy commits, and made changes to accommodate cloud events.
secureserverlesswebassemblycomposablemicroservices
containerd/runwasi
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd
Contributions:2 releases, 842 reviews, 9 commits in 7 months
containerdworkloadsrustwebassemblykubernetes
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