William Zhao
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Zhao is a Principal Software Engineer based in Toronto with a focused 4-year track record at Red Hat and over a decade of prior embedded and FPGA experience across Siemens, Imagine Communications, and Harris. He combines deep expertise in switching, Ethernet, MACSec, IEEE1588 time sync, NETCONF/YANG and DPU/Smart-NIC integration for Kubernetes with hands-on RTL FPGA design and verification for Altera/Xilinx. Comfortable across Linux/RTOS environments and low-level buses (PCIe, SPI, I2C, UART), he bridges firmware, drivers, and networking standards to deliver production-grade network systems. An active IEEE 802.1 working group participant, he brings standards-level insight to product implementations, making him adept at translating protocol specs into interoperable, secure deployments. Notably, his background spans both high-performance video transport systems and modern cloud-native networking, giving him a rare cross-domain vantage on hardware-software co-design.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (79)
minecraft10
tooling10
sdn-network10
nfv10
k8s10
operator10
commons10
intel10
kubernetes-networking10
provisioning10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
openshift10
sdn-controller10
network10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wizhaoredhat/k8snetworkplumbingwg-sriov-network-operator
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 1 month
provisioningospfnfvbgpoperator
wizhaoredhat/cluster-deployment-automation
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Automate deployment of clusters
Contributions:43 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 4 months
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