Zhaolong Zhang
Team Lead - Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Wind River
Beijing, China
Summary
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SeniorZhaolong Zhang is a Linux-focused technical leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience and over a decade in customer-facing roles, currently leading a cross-regional team at Wind River to deliver and maintain Wind River Linux for IoT, Telecom, and Automotive customers worldwide. He combines deep kernel and OS expertise—root-causing kernel crashes, memory corruption, race conditions and delivering BSP and Yocto meta-layer enablement—with people management and project delivery skills. He has overseen long-term maintenance programs, security hardening, container OTA solutions and helped win and implement complex customer projects across APAC, EMEA and NA. An active open-source contributor, he has upstream Linux kernel work and notable fixes in the widely used FreeRDP project, improving clipboard and Chinese character handling on Windows. Based in Beijing, he frequently acts as de facto project manager and mentor, recruiting and training engineers while improving team culture and cross-functional workflows. His blend of deep system-level debugging, customer empathy and open-source contributions makes him a reliable architect for embedded and telecom Linux platforms.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
c1710
ws-api10
winapi10
c1110
wp-api10
remote-desktop9
rdp9
c-language8
free-rdp8
rd8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRDP/FreeRDP
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Zhaolong primarily focused on bug fixes and implementing new features related to the FreeRDP clipboard functionality, especially for Windows systems. They addressed issues like keyboard focus and Chinese character display in file redirection. The user added a cliprdr (clipboard redirection) implementation on Windows, addressing file clipping. The commits involved modifications to core files.
freerdpremote-desktopsdlrdpandroid
zhangzl2013/drafts
Oct 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:27 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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