Nan Zhong
Experiment Data & Analytics Lead
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Zhong is a cloud-native backend leader with 13 years of experience architecting scalable distributed systems, currently heading cloud backend at Poolside after senior engineering and architecture roles at DigitalOcean. She has deep hands-on expertise in Go and backend platform work—contributing notable features to widely used open-source projects like DigitalOcean's godo, droplet_kit, and the cloud-controller-manager, including tagging, region handling, and cache fixes to prevent race conditions. At DigitalOcean she progressed from individual contributor to Principal Engineer/Manager in the Office of the CTO, driving PaaS and Kubernetes platform reliability and developer-facing APIs. Her background includes building high-throughput messaging and MVNO backends at TextNow and large-scale ETL and data deduplication systems at Flipp, reflecting a blend of infrastructure, API design, and data engineering. Known for pragmatic testing and dependency-management improvements, she pairs strategic architecture with frequent code contributions to production open-source tooling.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Honours Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Honours Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (36)
digitalocean-api10
apim10
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
digitalocean10
cloud-infrastructure10
ruby10
go10
api10
cloud-platform10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
service-provider10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/godo
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
DigitalOcean Go API client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nan contributed significantly to the DigitalOcean Go API client, primarily by implementing new features and supporting existing endpoints. Their work included adding support for embedded regions in actions and introducing tagging functionality across various endpoints, including droplets and actions. They also focused on enhancing the Tags service, which involved implementing functionalities for listing, creating, updating, and deleting tags. Furthermore, they implemented the ability to get cluster CA for the database clusters.
digitaloceango-apigogolangapi
digitalocean/droplet_kit
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
DropletKit is the official DigitalOcean API client for Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nan primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the DropletKit library, focusing on implementing and updating API mappings, models, and resources to support new features. Their work included adding support for `region_slug`, updating SSH key mappings, and adapting the library to accommodate breaking changes in the DigitalOcean API regarding region data. They also added droplet tagging and actions related to tagging and untagging resources.
digitalocean-apirubydigitaloceancloudapi
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