Patrick Zhan
Software Engineer at Tigera
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Zhan is a software engineer based in Vancouver with nine years of experience designing, building, and testing distributed systems across security and payments domains. Currently at Tigera, he brings practical expertise in cloud-native architectures and a history of delivering backend services at Paysafe and earlier engineering roles. He holds an MSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University and a BE in Software Engineering from Soochow University, blending academic rigor with hands-on production experience. Patrick thrives on tackling ambiguous, novel problems and enjoys learning new technologies to drive robust, scalable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers designing thoughtful systems over chasing trendy stacks. Outside core work he pursues deeper system insights rather than incremental fixes, which informs his approach to resilient distributed design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering at Soochow University (CN)Master of Science (MSc), Computing Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes-operator10
calico10
operator10
kubernetes8
signing4
init3
docker2
certificate-signing-request2
certificate2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xiumozhan/operator
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Kubernetes operator for installing Calico and Calico Enterprise
Contributions:43 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years
installingoperatorkubernetescalicokubernetes-operator
xiumozhan/Voting-App
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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