Zhenhui Zhao
Senior Backend Developer at Fortinet
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolZhenhui Zhao is a Senior Backend Developer with 10 years of hands-on experience in real-time embedded systems and five years as a Field Application Engineer bridging product development and customer deployment. He brings deep C/C++ and Linux expertise, strong knowledge of Ethernet/TCP-IP and 3GPP NAS/AS layers, and proven skills in multithreading, memory and file management across OSE and Linux environments. At Fortinet he focuses on bug fixes, feature implementation and performance tuning, while earlier roles at ZTE and Dometic show a track record of shipping connectivity solutions, optimizing SoC power and troubleshooting complex hardware-software interactions. Zhenhui is fluent in fast, methodical debugging using static and dynamic analysis tools (lint, valgrind, gcov) and has driven process improvements like automated code checks and OTA update strategies. He also explores cloud and networking technologies—OpenStack Neutron, SDN, OVS, Kubernetes and Istio—bringing embedded systems rigor to modern distributed and containerized environments. Based in Burnaby, BC, he pairs technical depth with strong customer-facing communication and a history of enabling large chipset sales through pragmatic engineering fixes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at ComITMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at Southeast UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at Jilin University
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Github Skills (187)
apache-spark10
postgresql10
python10
hadoop10
deep-learning10
protocol-buffers10
r10
big-data10
ml10
scale10
sdk10
sql10
data-processing10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bzhaoopenstack/gpdb
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Greenplum Database
Contributions:219 PRs, 87 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 1 month
mysqlsqlgreenplumdatabasegreenplum-database
bzhaoopenstack/flink
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Apache Flink
Contributions:3 PRs, 74 pushes, 16 branches in 11 months
flinkapachebig-datadatastreamapache-flink
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