Zhijun Zhao
Sales at Microsoft
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Summary
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RockstarZhijun Zhao is a technically grounded sales professional at Microsoft with nine years of experience bridging developer needs and cloud solutions from Chaoyang District, Beijing. He pairs commercial acumen with hands-on engineering experience, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like microsoft/azure-spring-boot and Ansible to improve Azure integrations and automation modules. His code work—adding auto-configuration for Azure Storage and Cosmos DB, fixing Azure API regressions, and expanding test coverage—gives him a practical edge when consulting on cloud adoption and deployment workflows. Colleagues benefit from his dual fluency in product requirements and low-level cloud plumbing, enabling smoother sales-to-implementation handoffs. He’s comfortable navigating large, collaborative codebases and translating technical trade-offs into business value. An unexpected strength is his habit of addressing both docs and tests, which keeps solutions reliable and accessible for engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
azure-storage10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
java10
cosmosdb10
javas10
automation10
infrastructure10
spring-boot10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
azure10
automations10
dependency-injection10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-spring-boot
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Spring Boot Starters for Azure services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 190 PRs, 265 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zhijun primarily contributed to the development of auto-configuration features for Azure services, specifically focusing on Azure Storage and Cosmos DB. They implemented auto-configuration for `CloudStorageAccount` and `DocumentClient` beans, enabling users to easily integrate with Azure services through Spring Boot. Furthermore, the user made improvements by refactoring package names, adding test cases, and including connection string support, enhancing the usability and reliability of the Azure integration. They also updated dependencies and addressed code review feedback.
azure-documentdbmicrosoftspring-socialazure-active-directorymedia-services
ansible/ansible
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:10 commits, 15 PRs, 32 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhijun primarily contributed to Azure-related modules within the Ansible project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to Azure API changes, specifically in modules like `azure_rm_acs`, `azure_rm_securitygroup`, and `azure_rm_loadbalancer`. They made improvements to documentation, addressed linting issues, and fixed typos within the Azure-related modules. The user's changes indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the Azure infrastructure automation capabilities of Ansible.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
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