Summary
Ricky Zhou is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Austin with five years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure. He has driven MLOps and SRE efforts at Zoom—designing service meshes, rollout/testing frameworks, and model deployment pipelines—and now applies that expertise to platform reliability at NVIDIA. Ricky excels at unifying CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes to automate deployments across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, and has been primary on-call for high-volume AI services. His background includes building observability and disaster recovery systems (Prometheus/Thanos, Grafana, multi-datacenter DR) and creating reusable Helm templating libraries to streamline developer delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex production requirements into repeatable, automated workflows that reduce toil and accelerate releases. He pairs a systems-first mindset from his CS degree with a pragmatic focus on operational resilience and scalable ML service delivery.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Chinese