Zhihui Zhang
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihui Zhang is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years focused on Linux kernel, file system, and storage-system development, currently shaping storage and OS-level solutions at Microsoft from Pittsburgh. He earned a Ph.D. in high-performance file systems and brings deep hands-on experience building and maintaining kernel modules and HPC checkpoint file systems—work that includes optimizing fsck performance and RAID-5 rebuild engines for Zest. Prior roles at Panasas and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center reflect a rare blend of production storage engineering and research-driven design for extreme I/O workloads. Known for squeezing maximum write throughput in clustered Linux environments, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with practical delivery at scale.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., high performance file system, Ph.D., high performance file system at Binghamton University
Github Skills (1)
filesystem10
Github contributions (5)
pscedu/zfs-fuse
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:147 commits, 138 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years 8 months
pscedu/slash2
Oct 2009 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8336 commits, 4257 pushes, 3 tags in 8 years 10 months
file-systemfilesystem
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