Summary
Shudong Zhou is a Sr. Principal ML Engineer in Fremont, CA with 14 years of hands-on experience bridging machine learning, networking, and systems engineering. He has progressed from core platform work at Sun and VMware to senior technical leadership at Big Switch, DeepMap, and now Zscaler, combining individual contributor depth with tech lead and management experience. Comfortable shipping production systems, he has made notable open-source contributions to the Floodlight SDN OpenFlow Controller, improving packet handling, topology/device management, and test coverage. Shudong enjoys tackling fun problems with broad implications and is known for being equally comfortable debugging low-level network code and architecting scalable ML-driven services.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer