Shuting Zhao
Staff Engineer at Nirmata
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShuting Zhao is a Staff Engineer based in San Jose with nine years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and scalable platform features. At Nirmata she progressed from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, leading practical improvements in policy validation, dynamic variable APIs, and lifecycle handling for Kubernetes resources. An active contributor to the prominent Kyverno project, she has implemented targeted linter fixes, guarded variable substitution paths, and strengthened validation of old/new object patterns—work that surfaces in real-world cloud policy management. Trained in electrical and communications engineering at NYU and Hunan University, she blends strong systems fundamentals with hands-on DevOps and Kubernetes expertise, often focusing on the subtle correctness issues that prevent production incidents.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at New York UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Information Engineering at Hunan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
json9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kyverno/kyverno
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Cloud Native Policy Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 5365 reviews, 1623 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Shuting primarily focused on code improvements and bug fixes, implementing the linter fix to the engine and validating against variable substitution paths that are not present. They also added a policy for handling the create and delete events for the Kubernetes resources, added API to add variables dynamically. They made improvements in policy validation by correctly validating patterns for old and new objects.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
realshuting/community
Jul 2019 - Sep 2024
Kubernetes community content
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
kuberneteskubernetes-community
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