Nan Zhou
Staff Software Engineer at Google
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Zhou is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with nine years of experience building backend, networking, big data, and CI systems, grounded in an M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a B.E. from Tsinghua. At Google they’ve progressed from senior engineering roles focused on platform, machine management and monitoring to staff-level responsibilities, blending low-level systems work with large-scale production services. Nan contributes to OpenBMC firmware—adding USB iperf3 tests and modernizing builds—showing hands-on embedded and board-management expertise beyond typical cloud-facing roles. Earlier internships at Pure Storage, DiDi, Juniper and Kneron broadened their stack across S3/Kubernetes, Spark, networking, and parallel computation, enabling quick cross-domain problem solving. Based in the Bay Area, they pair rigorous academic training with practical open-source impact and a track record of shipping robust, maintainable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree Information Science and Technology Automation, Bachelor's degree Information Science and Technology Automation at Tsinghua UniversityElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (14)
c1710
embedded10
c1110
openbmc10
sys10
bitbake10
yocto10
build-system9
mson8
linux8
mesonbuild8
openssl7
ipmi7
python4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openbmc/openbmc
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
OpenBMC Distribution
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:9 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nan primarily contributes to the OpenBMC project, focusing on board-level management controller (BMC) firmware. Their work includes adding and testing iperf3 for USB testing within the meta-quanta layer, suppressing OpenSSL warnings, and updating dependencies in recipes. They also manage the transition to meson builds, disables tests, and removes obsolete macros and performs source revision bumps for various components.
openbmcdistribution
FighterNan/SmartUpdate
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 22 days
undergraduatethesisundergraduate-thesis
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