Zixuan Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar at UC San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZixuan Wang is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple with a decade of experience building cloud and confidential-compute systems, currently focused on Private Cloud Compute and cloudOS. He holds a Ph.D. from UC San Diego where his research on memory systems bridged academic rigor with practical system design. His internships at Google and Meta produced production-facing confidential VM and SEV/UEFI work that was upstreamed to the Linux KVM community and recognized with peer bonuses. Zixuan’s open-source and automation orientation shows in projects like the Zhejiang University LaTeX thesis template, for which he built CI/CD, packaging, and Overleaf integration tooling. Based in Issaquah, he combines deep systems research with hands-on release engineering and a knack for making complex platform security features deployable at scale. Outside work he’s an open-source enthusiast, avid photographer and gamer—small signals of a pragmatic engineer who values craft and curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree Medicinal Chemistry, Bachelor's degree Medicinal Chemistry at China Pharmaceutical University
Github Skills (9)
automation10
github-ci10
bash10
automations10
latex10
githubaction-workflow10
scripting10
cicd10
release-management9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
TheNetAdmin/zjuthesis
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Zhejiang University Graduation Thesis LaTeX Template
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:44 releases, 4 reviews, 560 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zixuan primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for the LaTeX thesis template. They implemented CI/CD scripts using Bash and GitHub Actions to build and test the LaTeX template across different configurations and environments. The user also created scripts for packaging and releasing new versions of the template, demonstrating a strong emphasis on automation and release management. Additionally, they worked on integrating with Overleaf.
templatexelatexthesis-templatezhejiang-universityoverleaf
TheNetAdmin/ZjuReportTemplate
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
LaTex Template of Lab Report for ZJU Students.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
reportzjulatex-templatelatexlab
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