Joseph Zhang
Principal Platform Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Zhang is a Principal Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and platform tooling, primarily using Java, Node.js, and Kubernetes. He has driven large-scale migrations and infrastructure optimization—most recently shaping platform reliability at Absolute Software after contributing to Amazon EKS and Route 53 at AWS. Joseph blends hands-on service design (Spring Boot microservices, OpenResty, ActiveMQ, ELK) with DevOps ownership, having migrated 100+ microservices to Kubernetes and modernized customer-facing platforms. Comfortable across mobile, backend and infra, he also has a background in Android and secure data handling from earlier roles. Based in Vancouver, he combines practical engineering with an eye for code quality and operational efficiency, often tackling legacy-to-cloud transitions that reduce risk and speed delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Business Administration, Associate's degree Business Administration at Beihang UniversityCertificate Network Systems and Security Professional, Certificate Network Systems and Security Professional at The University of British ColumbiaStatistics, Statistics at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (144)
messaging10
github10
package-management10
message-queue10
argocd10
fits10
declarative10
k8s10
portable10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
azure-devops10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jzhn/argo-cd
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
jzhn/renovate
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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