Zhengsheng Zhou
Staff Engineer 2 at VMware
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZhengsheng Zhou is a Staff Engineer with 15 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native networking and virtualization platforms, currently developing software-defined networking for Kubernetes and OpenShift at VMware. His background spans OpenStack, Ceph, KVM management and containerization, where he led high-availability designs, CI/CD practices, and hyper-converged private cloud implementations. An early open-source contributor while at IBM, he has improved code quality and test reliability in notable projects like oVirt/vdsm and the Kimchi HTML5 KVM manager, bringing practical maintenance-focused fixes and test automation. Comfortable moving between backend development and platform architecture, he combines operational pragmatism with a strong emphasis on maintainability and automation. Based in Beijing, he holds a master's in Network Applications and often bridges networking theory with hands-on systems engineering.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Network Applications, Master's degree, Network Applications at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Github Skills (11)
libvirt10
kvm10
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
iscsi9
ovirt9
bash5
system-administration4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
May 2012 - Nov 2013
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhengsheng contributed to the `ovirt/vdsm` repository, which is a Virtual Desktop Server Manager. Their commits focused on improving the codebase by addressing code style issues and making various modifications to ensure PEP8 compliance, specifically in Python scripts. These changes included correcting usage help strings, modifying scripts for code style compliance, and extracting methods to improve code readability. The impact of their work is improved code quality and maintainability of the vdsm project.
server-managervirtual-desktopovirt
kimchi-project/kimchi
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
An HTML5 management interface for KVM guests
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:49 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Zhengsheng primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the kimchi project. Their work involved fixing bugs within the test suite, specifically related to debug report generation and sosreport functionality, and adding tests for iSCSI storage pools. The user improved the test suite by addressing timeout issues, correcting file name matching, and generating UUIDs for temporary file names, making tests more reliable. Additionally, they refactored and enhanced the code for storage pool handling.
kvmlibvirtlinuxweb-application
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