Zuo Xiang
Software Engineer at Cisco
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolZuo Xiang is a software engineer at Cisco CRDC with 11 years of experience building high-performance, server-side systems and virtualized network functions for enterprise routing and SD-WAN on ISR1K/4K platforms. He earned a PhD from Technische Universität Dresden researching ultra-reliable, low-latency 5G network softwarization using NFV and SDN, and has hands-on experience implementing 5G core functions in C++, Go, and Python. His work spans deep protocol and OS-level knowledge (GNU/Linux) alongside practical product delivery—bridging academic research on software data planes with production router feature development and bug fixes. Past roles include co-developing 5G cloud core components and optimizing streaming and embedded systems, reflecting a balance of systems optimization and telecom domain expertise. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns rigorous research into deployable, low-latency network software and who prefers lightweight, efficient toolchains (neovim, Linux) for engineering productivity.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Dr.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, cum laude, Dr.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, cum laude at Technische Universität DresdenB.Eng., Telecommunications Engineering, A （GPA 3.5/4.0）, B.Eng., Telecommunications Engineering, A （GPA 3.5/4.0） at Xidian University
Chinese, English, German
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Github Skills (69)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stevelorenz/comnetsemu
May 2019 - Jan 2023
A virtual emulator/testbed designed for the book: Computing in Communication Networks: From Theory to Practice (2020)
Contributions:223 commits, 8 PRs, 131 pushes in 3 years 8 months
communication-networksemulatorteachingnfvcommunication
stevelorenz/build-vnf
May 2018 - Jan 2022
:coffee: A collection of utilities to build, test and benchmark practical and high-performance VNFs using containers.
Contributions:440 commits, 709 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 9 months
containerscoffeepracticalbenchmarkperformance
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