Lizan Zhou
Co-Founder at Lyquor Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLizan Zhou is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems from Google to startups in San Francisco. She has deep backend and DevOps expertise, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Envoy, Istio, and gRPC—work that spans HTTP/2, TLS, Bazel builds, and core protocol handling. As a founding engineer at Tetrate and Senior Principal Engineer at Aviatrix, she’s delivered production-grade service mesh and networking features while also fixing complex build and dependency issues. Now leading Lyquor Labs, she combines hands-on systems programming with product-level thinking and an unusual side pursuit as a certified flight instructor, reflecting discipline and practical risk management. Her background in finance from the University of Tokyo and early roles at Twitter and Google give her a rare mix of rigorous analytical training and large-scale systems experience.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (42)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
c-language10
tls1210
http10
tls1310
mtls10
go10
bazel10
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
envoyproxy9
develop9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 1738 reviews, 445 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lizan's contributions focused on implementing and improving the core functionality of a cloud-native, high-performance edge/middle/service proxy, as evidenced by the base64 encode, unused header removal, and request/response processing code changes. The user demonstrated experience in HTTP/2 protocol handling, and transport layer security configuration within a modern cloud environment. The user also implemented the processing of header and trailer.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
istio/istio
Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lizan contributed to the Istio service mesh by addressing build and configuration issues, particularly around Bazel build system and related dependencies. They upgraded tooling like `rules_go`, fixed build configurations and dependencies, and addressed loopback proxy injection problems. Furthermore, they added crucial features, like the ability to include mixer status in access logs and upstream transport failure information.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
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