Kenneth Zhao
Technology Specialist at SolutionSoft Systems, Inc
Chino Hills, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Zhao is a Technology Specialist with over 20 years of software development experience and more than a decade focused on systems engineering, kernel and filesystem work, and production-ready services. He has deep UNIX expertise—contributing cross-platform fixes to the well-known PyInstaller project for AIX and HP-UX—and has driven AIX kernel and TimeMachine product development at SolutionSoft. As a former CTO and R&D manager, he built and led teams that delivered patented 3D color barcode systems and capacity-on-demand storage solutions, pairing hardware-aware engineering with Python, Go, Docker, and Kubernetes. Pragmatic and hands-on, he blends low-level systems design with modern cloud-native deployment and has a master's in electrical engineering from USC.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California
Github Skills (14)
loader10
bootloader10
aix10
hp-ux10
cross-platform10
u-boot10
multiplatform10
python-exec10
python10
boot10
package-management9
build-system9
c178
c118
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pyinstaller/pyinstaller
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
Freeze (package) Python programs into stand-alone executables
Role in this project:
Backend & System Engineer
Backend & System EngineerContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to platform-specific adaptations, notably for AIX and HP-UX systems, within the PyInstaller bootloader and compatibility modules. They fixed compatibility issues related to shared library loading and build processes, addressing the handling of specific system tools and configurations. The contributions involve modifying build scripts and adapting code to work correctly on a variety of Unix-like platforms, enhancing PyInstaller's cross-platform capabilities. The changes include correcting code for the usage of `mkdtemp` function.
pythonstandrevit-apisetuptoolspython2
goodtiding5/docker-nitter
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Docker image for nitter, an alternative Twitter front-end.
Contributions:1 review, 83 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years
docker-imagenitterdockertwitterfront-end
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