Rong Zhang
China
Summary
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RockstarRong Zhang is a Senior Technical Product Manager with over a decade of experience building and supporting cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading supportability and troubleshooting for Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft. She blends deep engineering chops—demonstrated by significant open-source contributions to Kubernetes projects like kubespray and the Kubernetes dashboard—with product leadership honed at AWS and Quidsi. Rong specializes in cluster management, GPU scheduling, and closed-loop scheduling systems, turning low-level operational issues into product improvements that scale. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she pairs an MS in EE from NYU with hands-on DevOps work, including upgrades, RBAC, IPVS support and event/audit integrations for production-grade Kubernetes deployments. Notably, her background spans both founder-stage startups and large cloud providers, giving her a rare ability to move between strategic roadmaps and tactical engineering fixes.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
infrastructure10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
backend10
devops10
etcd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 209 commits, 259 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rong focused on enhancing the deployment and configuration of the Kubernetes cluster managed by Kubespray. Their contributions include adding RBAC for the Dashboard UI, fixing dashboard certificate issues, supporting the IPVS proxy mode, adding etcd-events cluster and enabling OOM killing. Additionally, they upgraded Kubernetes to V1.11.x and subsequently to V1.12.0 and V1.13.0, incorporating Kubeadm deployment mode, cloud provider configurations, audit support and implementing various fixes, and code improvements across the deployment process.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
kubernetes/dashboard
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
General-purpose web UI for Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 54 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rong primarily focused on improving the Kubernetes dashboard's backend functionality. They addressed issues related to retrieving events for deployments and services. The user added features, modifying the codebase to include service events and integrating new types for Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) and Persistent Volumes (PV). They also fixed replication controller pod status and added secret type support.
web-uiclusterspurposekubernetes-clusterskubernetes
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