Shiming Zhang
Software Engineer at DaoCloud
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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RockstarShiming Zhang is a cloud-native software engineer with 11 years’ experience building and hardening distributed systems, currently contributing at DaoCloud from Shanghai. He is an active Kubernetes SIG-Node reviewer, creator and maintainer of kwok (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet) and a member of the Istio community, with deep hands‑on work in control-plane behavior, testing and simulation of large clusters. His open-source footprint spans high-profile projects like kubernetes/kubernetes, client-go, containerd, runc and Istio, where he focused on test automation, CI/CD, bug fixes and reliability improvements. He has repeatedly automated complex test environments—refactoring frameworks to use kwokctl and adding comprehensive end‑to‑end suites—to make large-scale testing practical and repeatable. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and QA roles, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, resource management and graceful shutdown semantics. Colleagues know him for quietly improving robustness at the platform level and for a playful GitHub bio that belies serious engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (48)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
debug10
github-ci10
container10
docker10
controller10
simulator10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
dbus10
cicd10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
DaoCloud/public-image-mirror
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
很多镜像都在国外。比如 gcr 。国内下载很慢，需要加速。致力于提供连接全世界的稳定可靠安全的容器镜像服务。
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 165 commits, 888 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Shiming primarily contributed to the repository by adding and modifying bash scripts for checking and synchronizing container images. They developed scripts to compare images, manage tag exclusions, and generate badges reflecting synchronization status. The contributions centered around automating the process of mirroring container images, ensuring image consistency, and integrating with GitHub Actions for automated checks. The user also demonstrated an understanding of image inspection tools like `skopeo` and configuration management using `yaml`.
mirrorcheckingcrspeedup
kubernetes-sigs/kwok
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Nodes and Clusters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 1109 reviews, 173 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shiming's initial commit introduces the `kwok-controller`, a core component within the `kwok` project for simulating Kubernetes clusters. The code changes focus on the implementation of the pod controller, specifically the logic for handling pod status, including IP address assignment and deletion. The user's work also involves setting up event handling for pod lifecycle events, indicating a focus on core Kubernetes control plane functionality.
fake-k8sfake-kubeletclustersnodesk8s-sig-scheduling
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