Ryan Zhang
Senior Engineering Manager at Mirantis
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Zhang is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native and enterprise software. He grew from individual contributor to senior manager at Mirantis, expanding a 4-person team into two teams of 14 while driving product reliability and architecture changes that helped grow ARR tenfold to over $85M. His background spans container and orchestration platforms (Docker Enterprise, Kubernetes), SDN and high-performance networking at Cisco, and full-stack enterprise systems, enabling him to bridge hardware-aware engineering with cloud-native product strategy. He has a strong track record of turning prototypes into production-grade solutions, standardizing development workflows, and introducing AI-driven and upgrade-safe architectures to protect legacy revenue while attracting new customers. Holder of advanced electrical engineering degrees, he combines deep technical rigor with people leadership and a bias for measurable business impact. An understated strength is his ability to translate low-level performance optimizations into product features that customers notice and value.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical Engineering at University of MinnesotaUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (109)
golang10
unit-test10
documentation10
docker10
ecosystem9
object-oriented-programming9
cli9
security9
rspec9
docker-cli9
plugin9
spec9
networking9
functional-programming9
container9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ry4nz/docker.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jul 2019
Source repo for Docker's Documentation, output served at docs.docker.com
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
docker-docsdocker-comdocker
ry4nz/openldap4docker
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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