zihanyan

Software Engineer

Software Engineer with 3.5+ years of experience building and validating large-scale distributed systems at Microsoft Azure. Experienced in Python and Rust, with deep hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, and high-performance storage systems. Focus on system reliability, performance optimization, and infrastructure engineering.

I’m deeply interested in blockchain infrastructure, high-performance Layer2/DEX platforms, and AI infrastructure engineering. I’m eager to bring my expertise in reliability, performance optimization, and automation to either Web3 or AI-focused high-growth engineering teams. 


Experience: No experience

Yearly salary: $14,000

Hourly rate: $70

Nationality: 🇨🇳 China

Residency: 🇨🇳 China


Experience

SOFTWARE ENGINEER Azure Storage
Microsoft Asia Pacific Technology Ltd
2022 - 2026
Azure Container Storage (Acstor) Participated in core function verification and quality platform development, and maintained verification tools and automation frameworks. Designed and implemented a large-scale scenario validation system based on Kubernetes and AKS, building hundreds of functional and fault test scenarios covering Azure Disk, SAN, local NVMe, and persistent volume lifecycle, supporting NVIDIA and other key customer scenarios. Identified new-version defects and cluster anomalies quickly via automation, driving root-cause fixes and architecture optimization to improve service stability. Optimized verification processes and maintained test cases to support reliability and production quality for large-scale AKS clusters. Azure Storage Blob GC (Garbage Collection) Extended the GC verification framework to cover diverse account configurations and Blob write/delete patterns, closing test gaps. Built GC stress test scenarios for OpenAI workloads, validating stability and performance under high concurrency and large data volumes. Set up weekly ICM automated alerts for GC issues and developed a dashboard to visualize execution status and errors, improving troubleshooting efficiency.

Skills

cloud-engineer
kubernetes
python
rust
ai
chinese-mandarin