Xiao Zhang
Senior Researcher at Cisco ThousandEyes
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao (Shane) Zhang is a senior Internet measurement researcher at ThousandEyes (Cisco) with 13 years of experience specializing in global networking performance, IP anycast, and outage detection. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Duke University and has driven production-focused research collaborations with Meta and Akamai on client redirection and anycast optimization. Shane’s work spans building large measurement testbeds (including a 15‑PoP AnyOpt anycast testbed) to designing crowd-sourced traceroute distillation and SaaS performance baselining systems. A recipient of an IBM Fellowship and a former IBM Research intern, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering that surfaces subtle, real-world routing and CDN behaviors. Based in Raleigh, NC, he is known for translating measurement insights into practical optimization strategies used by major operators.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Duke UniversityBEng & MEng Computer Science, BEng & MEng Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
pyinstaller10
py2app9
python9
py2exe9
package9
bundle8
homebridge7
openflow7
sabre6
rapid-prototyping5
python-bindings5
xiaomi5
mininet5
linux5
sdn5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shane-zhang/shane_CV
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
junyuan-leng/youngchangan
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 3 months
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