Qian Zhang
VP Of Engineering at 极狐(GitLab)
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolQian Zhang is a VP of Engineering with 10+ years building and leading teams for cloud-native, container and distributed systems, currently shaping engineering at GitLab in Xi'an. He brings deep hands-on expertise in C/C++ and Go on Linux, intimate knowledge of container internals (cgroups, namespaces, unionfs) and code-level familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes, complemented by IaC and DevOps practice. As an Apache Mesos committer and PMC chair, he owned CNI/CSI/OCI integration in Mesos and has contributed to prominent projects like DC/OS and LXD, reflecting a strong open-source stewardship. He combines six years of engineering management—including three managing fully remote teams—with a pragmatic grasp of both agile and waterfall delivery. Colleagues describe him as highly self-disciplined and self-motivated, able to bridge low-level systems engineering and strategic platform decisions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
lxd10
mesos10
docker10
container10
c-language10
testing10
dcos10
dockers10
security10
go10
test-integration10
cprogramming-language10
test-unit10
devops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mesos
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
Apache Mesos
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 515 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Qian primarily contributed to the core development of the Apache Mesos project by fixing bugs and addressing typos in the C++ codebase. They implemented new functionality by adding test code, and updating existing features. Their work included creating new tests and implementing new agent flags, and the user interacted with a wide range of core files.
apachebig-datacloudmesosjava
dcos/dcos
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
DC/OS - The Datacenter Operating System
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Qian primarily contributed to integration tests and configuration related to the DC/OS project. Their work includes adding and modifying tests for features such as cgroups, IPC namespaces, and CSI volumes. They also modified configuration files to enable or disable specific features like docker garbage collection and the CSI volume isolator. Additionally, they are involved in adapting tests for changes such as nested cgroups and Azure environment considerations.
kernelvdiisolationpythondcos
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.