Xiaodong Zhao
Director Of IT at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 香港中文大学（深圳）
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolXiaodong Zhao is an experienced IT leader and Director of IT at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, combining over two decades of institutional IT management with six years of hands-on software engineering practice. He directs campus-wide IT strategy—service management, infrastructure, security, research computing and smart campus initiatives—translating academic needs into scalable, policy-compliant solutions. Technically versatile, he contributes to open-source projects such as BlockSuite and AFFiNE, adding real-time collaboration, UI improvements, and WebSocket-backed database sync for OctoBase, bridging front-end UX and Rust-backed storage. His dual academic background in computer science and an MBA informs a pragmatic blend of technical depth and budget-conscious program leadership. Colleagues rely on him to align technology with pedagogy and research priorities while navigating government sourcing and campus expansion. Less obvious: he pairs enterprise-grade governance with active code-level contributions, making him equally comfortable in boardroom planning and repository pull requests.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management and Operations at Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (24)
editors10
javascript10
sqlite10
databases10
storage10
typescript10
ui-design10
editor10
crdt10
uid10
front-end-development10
database-design10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
rust10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
toeverything/AFFiNE
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 40 commits, 39 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Xiaodong primarily focused on implementing and fixing UI components within the `affine` knowledge base repository. Their contributions included replacing UI elements, fixing bugs related to workspace name renaming and sidebar menus, and addressing link style issues. A significant portion of their work involved enhancing the double-link interaction feature, indicating a focus on improving the user experience within the application.
knowledge-baseplanningrust-languagemiromarkdown
toeverything/OctoBase
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
🐙 OctoBase is the open-source database behind AFFiNE, local-first, yet collaborative. A light-weight, scalable, data engine written in Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 69 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Xiaodong primarily focused on back-end development tasks, specifically related to database interactions and synchronization. They implemented features for WebSocket synchronization, including file saving and data migration. The user's commits demonstrate proficiency in database design and management, as well as the implementation of data storage and retrieval mechanisms using Rust and SQLite. The work involved the creation and modification of database schemas and data migration strategies within the OctoBase project.
collaborativecrdtdatabasedecentralized-storagep2p
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