Summary
Shaozhen Ding is an architect and cloud-native specialist with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale platform and managed services across multi-cloud environments. As a former Principal Managed OpenShift Black Belt at Red Hat and current architect at Zscaler, he specializes in driving adoption of Managed OpenShift on GCP, Azure, and AWS through hands-on demos, solution design, and implementation. He holds CKA and CKAD certifications and has deep experience bridging product, SRE, and cloud vendors to improve offering reliability and performance. His background includes platform leadership at Smarsh, VMware, and Pivotal where he led PaaS, CI/CD, and Kubernetes/Tanzu initiatives and contributed to open-source projects and validated reference architectures. Colleagues rely on him to translate customer needs into repeatable, secure operational patterns and to fill technical gaps between field requirements and product roadmaps. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he blends field-facing empathy with pragmatic engineering, often surfacing product improvements from real customer engagements.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Central Michigan University
Bachelor Compuer Science, Bachelor Compuer Science at Jilin University