Xiaosi Zhou is a founder and CEO with over a decade building cloud-native infrastructure and leading product teams from open-source roots to commercial AI platforms. As the original creator of KubeSphere, he helped simplify Kubernetes for thousands of teams and continues to translate that platform-first mindset into AI with spader.ai (elastic GPU/TPU and LLM token services) and knowv.ai (multimodal, knowledge-driven autonomous agents). He blends hands-on backend and DevOps experience—contributing to API docs, localization, installer tooling, and platform reliability—with executive leadership across QingCloud and his own startup. Based in Beijing, he pairs technical depth in distributed systems and orchestration with an operator’s focus on developer experience and internationalization. Notably, his open-source contributions emphasize usability for non-English users and clearer API surfaces, reflecting a pragmatic attention to adoption barriers. His mission is to make powerful compute and actionable intelligence broadly accessible so others can innovate on top.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Automatic Control, B.S, Automatic Control at Harbin Engineering University
M.S, Computer Science, M.S, Computer Science at Florida International University Jan. 2003
Master, Business Administration, Master, Business Administration at Florida International University May 2008
Application Management Platform on Multi-Cloud Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:98 commits, 76 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Xiaosi primarily focused on modifying and generating code related to the application's API, specifically within the swagger framework. They addressed import paths, generated code, and fixed issues within the API configuration. Furthermore, the user added a sketch of code to the apphub-server to create the basic server framework. The user's contributions are centered around the API definition and its core functionality within the OpenPitrix platform.
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 61 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Xiaosi primarily focused on refining and updating API documentation for the KubeSphere platform. Their contributions involved clarifying documentation for logging, IAM, and monitoring APIs, ensuring that API descriptions and parameters were clear and accurate. They also made minor grammatical corrections to improve the readability and correctness of the documentation. Furthermore, the user integrated changes related to the merge of master branch into the api-fix branch.
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Xiaosi Zhou - Founder & CEO at Beijing 与星以舟 (Yǔ Xīng Yǐ Zhōu)