Lei Zhang
DevOps And Tech Lead at IBM
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Zhang is a DevOps and Tech Lead with 11 years of experience building and porting cloud and infrastructure software for enterprise systems, currently leading a DevOps team at IBM to release and maintain Red Hat products on IBM z systems. He has deep hands-on expertise porting open-source projects (Calico, Puppet, Cloud Foundry, Swift, OpenShift and more) to Linux on s390x and integrating them into Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Lei combines systems-level engineering with release automation, CI/CD and hybrid-cloud prototyping, having used OpenStack, Jenkins and KVM-based tooling to validate complex deployments. His work enabled official s390x support for tools like Puppet and improved Swift compiler test coverage through low-level runtime fixes. Based in Canada with a PhD in Computer Science, he blends rigorous research training with pragmatic production delivery across large enterprise and partner ecosystems. Colleagues know him for solving obscure platform portability challenges that unlock mainstream support for legacy hardware in modern cloud stacks.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of VictoriaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at China University of Geosciences
English, Chinese
Github Skills (165)
programming-language10
hat10
jboss10
swift10
container-image10
monitoring9
data-visualization9
rust9
dashboard9
tooling9
elasticsearch9
docker9
mysql9
openshift9
client-library8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
levivic/zEcoTest
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
levivic/release
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
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