Zhaoxi Zhu
Senior Software Engineer at Fortra
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhaoxi Zhu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience building cloud and Linux networking systems, particularly in SDN, cloud gateway/host agents, and dataplane technologies like OVS, XDP and VPP. He has a strong networking toolkit spanning IPv4/IPv6, DHCP, PPPoE and dynamic routing, and practical experience integrating modem/5G components into software stacks. Zhaoxi has contributed to CNCF’s kubeedge—adding systemd support and improving edgecore deployment and Kubernetes dependency management—demonstrating strengths in cloud-native edge infrastructure and DevOps. His career includes progressive roles at Futurewei and WatchGuard and current work at Fortra, reflecting steady growth from support and development to senior engineering. Peers describe him as a pragmatic engineer who combines low-level Linux networking expertise with cloud-native deployment savvy.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree (Transfered before finishing) Computer Science, Associate's degree (Transfered before finishing) Computer Science at Seattle Central CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Washington Bothell
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
golang10
systemd10
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
cloud-native10
edge-computing10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
cd8
cicd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubeedge/kubeedge
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zhaoxi primarily contributed to the core functionality of the kubeedge project by modifying code related to edgecore service management and installation. They implemented features to run edgecore as a system service, and modified the installation process to include systemd support, which improved the project's deployment capabilities. In addition to back-end modifications, the user made commits focused on dependency updates, especially to Kubernetes APIs and dependencies, which are critical for cloud-native applications. The user's work demonstrates skills in cloud-native edge computing infrastructure management.
golangedge-computingmosquittodevice-managementmqtt
zzxgzgz/alcor-control-agent
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Cloud native SDN platform - network control agent
Contributions:688 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year 10 months
agentcloud-nativesdn
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