Junlong Gao
Software Engineer at Broadcom
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJunlong Gao is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years focused on distributed storage and virtualization, currently working on vSAN and VMKernel at Broadcom after roles at Google and Apple. He has driven core data-plane and metadata systems—designing journaling, B+Tree transactions, and observability for vSAN ESA—and built userspace storage architectures for Google Distributed Cloud. Known for shipping production-grade storage features across large-scale platforms, he blends deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic engineering. Based in San Jose, he pairs an electrical and computer engineering background from Shanghai Jiao Tong with a CS degree from Michigan, and brings a curious, eventually-consistent approach to problem solving hinted at by his GitHub tagline.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of MichiganElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (35)
testing9
structures9
test-framework9
bdd9
tdd9
helix9
cpp9
java8
data-structures6
trinitycore6
stl6
sdk6
aws6
single-file6
aws-sdk6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
junlong-gao/distributed_systems
May 2017 - Oct 2019
MIT 6.824: A set of toy distributed systems based on consensus protocols raft/paxos
Contributions:35 PRs, 165 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 5 months
protocolsraft-consensus-algorithmconsensustoypaxos
junlong-gao/recreations
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:473 commits, 440 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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