Kai Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Alluxio, Inc.
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Zhang is a senior software engineer based in Beijing with 12 years of experience focused on distributed systems and infrastructure. Currently at Alluxio, he drives improvements in auto-deployment and system observability while splitting time between infra and data teams. Previously at Baidu he led a small team to introduce and maintain a service mesh, managed RPC and configuration-distribution infrastructure, and built distributed map-reduce and resource-auditing systems. He combines deep practical knowledge of consensus (Raft), RPC, and service mesh patterns with hands-on SRE and compilation/optimization experience. Colleagues rely on him for durable, scalable solutions that bridge low-level systems concerns and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Nanjing University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (67)
alluxio10
hadoop10
orchestration10
galaxy10
presto10
kubernetes10
spark10
data-science10
analytics10
tensorflow10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
sky10
paxos9
scale9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
baidu/ins
Aug 2015 - Oct 2020
iNexus, coordinate large scale services
Contributions:3 releases, 112 commits, 36 PRs in 5 years 3 months
consensuspaxosdockerscalelarge-scale
Alluxio/k8s-operator
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
An operator for managing Alluxio system on Kubernetes cluster
Contributions:38 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
alluxiodata-analysisdata-orchestrationkuberneteskubernetes-operator
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