Zheng Chai
Senior Manager Of Product Development at Citrix Systems
Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZheng Chai is a senior product development leader with 12+ years of experience architecting hypervisor, virtualization, and hybrid cloud solutions, currently scaling and directing XenServer engineering at Citrix from a small team to multiple full-stack scrum teams. He combines hands-on systems engineering—contributions to XenCenter/WLB and core Dom0 components—with program-level ownership of cloud-native MicroServices, CICD, and container-based hybrid cloud connectors. His background spans telecom-grade real-time systems, J2EE appliances, and GPU/SR-IOV virtualization, complemented by patents in the space and certifications such as PMP and Leading SAFe. Fluent in English and Mandarin, he routinely bridges APAC customer support, product management, and engineering execution while fostering multi-team collaboration. Notably, he has driven product launches that integrate legacy hypervisor capabilities with modern public cloud deployments, reflecting a pragmatic blend of research-grade innovation and production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Applications, Master, Master's degree, Computer Applications, Master at Southwest Jiaotong UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master at Nanjing University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
xserver10
dotnet10
xen10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xenserver/xenadmin
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
XenCenter, the Windows management console for XenServer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Zheng primarily focused on modifying the XenCenter management console for XenServer, contributing to Workload Balancing (WLB) features. Their work involved changes to the UI, dialogs, and core system components, including adjustments to how WLB is enabled or disabled based on XenServer versions. They also addressed specific cases related to Clearwater and Creedence versions, modifying code to align with the product releases. Further contributions involved fixing and hiding features based on specific server-side readiness.
windowsconsolewindows-servicexenserverwindows-forms
xs-nanjing/XenAndroidCenter
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 2 days
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