Jintao Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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RockstarJintao Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native API and ingress solutions, currently driving backend development at Kong Inc. He is a Microsoft MVP, CNCF Ambassador, Apache PMC member and a maintainer on high-profile projects like Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX and contributions to Moby and kind, reflecting deep expertise in Go, containers, and Kubernetes. Previously he led the cloud-native team at API7.ai where he built the APISIX Ingress Controller, service mesh components, and a declarative CLI that expanded the APISIX ecosystem. Jintao blends hands-on infrastructure and DevOps work—improving CI, build images and reproducible builds—with feature-focused backend engineering and testing. He speaks regularly at major open-source events (KubeCon, ApacheCon, IstioCon) and is known for improving reliability through careful dependency and test work rather than flashy rewrites. Based in Hong Kong, he enjoys bridging product needs and developer ergonomics to ship pragmatic, secure API platforms.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (43)
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
container10
docker10
vendor10
controller10
scripting10
ingress10
bash10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
vim10
apache-apisix10
runc10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
apache/apisix-ingress-controller
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
APISIX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1026 reviews, 121 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jintao contributed features for the APISIX Ingress Controller, focusing on implementing and testing functionalities related to ingress annotations. This included adding support for HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect annotation and consumer controller loop. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Kubernetes Ingress resources and the APISIX API, with changes across code and test files. The work involved modifying configuration files and core logic to enable and validate new functionalities within the ingress controller.
apicontrollercrdsdevopsapigateway
tao12345666333/vim
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
My Vim configuration more Python, Javascript, Vue.js, Golang and Markdown, will add Haskell, Ruby and C/C++
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 109 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jintao primarily focused on configuring and improving the installation process for the Vim configuration. Their commits involve modifying the `install.sh` script to enhance installation, including adding and fixing functionalities related to downloading and executing the Vim configuration file. The user also addressed issues related to Travis CI integration and improved the installation script by adding flags for better functionality. The user's contributions show an emphasis on building a reliable and streamlined setup procedure for the Vim configuration.
golangvue-jspythonvimhaskell
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