Kevin Zhao
Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zhao is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently at Temporal Technologies after prior roles at Lyft and internships at Google and Lyft. He brings practical systems knowledge from contributing to Microsoft’s Demikernel project—optimizing networking code, modernizing Rust toolchains, and integrating mimalloc to reduce footprint and boost performance. A University of Washington computer science graduate and former UW PhD student on his GitHub, Kevin combines production-grade service development with research-informed approaches to performance engineering. Known for pragmatic refactors and tooling upgrades, he focuses on making core infrastructure faster and leaner while keeping dependencies minimal.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of WashingtonIB Diploma, IB Diploma at Skyline High School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
asynchronous10
algorithm10
network10
data-structures10
bypass10
algorithms10
rust10
kernel-mode10
data-structure10
async10
dpdk9
pdk8
sdk8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/demikernel
May 2020 - May 2020
Kernel-Bypass LibOS Architecture
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on optimizing and refactoring the project's core backend components, specifically related to the Demikernel library's networking functionalities. Their contributions involved updating the Rust compiler version, replacing standard library hash maps with a faster alternative, and streamlining the async runtime by removing unnecessary dependencies. These changes aimed to enhance performance and reduce the library's footprint by optimizing frequently used data structures and core networking logic. Additionally, the user integrated mimalloc for memory allocation.
spdkkernellinuxdpdkbypass
kzhao0986/parsec-3.0
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:539 pushes in 3 months
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