Di Xu

Experience

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  IBM

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2016

  Senior Software Developer

  - Participated in Bluemix Landing Program, which was aimed to provide OpenStack infrastructure services for Bluemix in China with BlueBox solutions.- Wrote an open source project named reflatus to dynamically show the real-time status of these CIs.- Developed ICM (IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack) using Python, Shell scripts, Ruby and Chef.- Contributed codes to OpenStack Community on project jenkins-job-builder and etc.- Recognized in the Manager's Choice Award of 2015- Participated in software design and implementation of Extended Nodepool (mainly providing services to fetch/query nodes from providers, like OpenStack Cloud, Smart Cloud Entry and etc, and dynamically mounting clean slave nodes to Jenkins as needed); Published a QSE poster with other two colleagues based on this project in 2014; Show less

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  A Startup Company

  Aug 2016 - May 2017

  Senior Software Engineer

  - Developed multi-tenancy for Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/), integrating with Keystone (https://docs.openstack.org/keystone/latest/) on my own.- Contributed PRs to Kubernetes community.- Developed Dojoyn, which is a streaming join platform interacting with Kafka, HBase and etc.

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  Arm

  May 2017 - Jul 2018

  Senior Software Engineer | Open Source Advocate

  - Active Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io) member and reviewer with more than 100 PRs merged.- Top 50 code contributor in Kubernetes community.- Mentee of Kubernetes Reviewer Cohort #1.- Ported Multus CNI (mainly SRIOV and multiple flannel) by Compass4NFV to OPNFV on AArch64 platforms.- Enabled multiple cloud native projects on AArch64, such as Kubernetes, Juju (https://juju.is/), etc.

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  Ant Group

  Jul 2018 - Dec 2020

  Senior Software Engineer

  - Built next-generation PaaS based on Kubernetes as a feature owner, including. a. multi-cluster managements, such as building uniform access for multiple Kubernetes clusters b. stability, such as kube-apiserver flow control, container runtime enhancements, etc c. RBAC, such as integrating RBAC with RAM (Resource Access Management of Alibaba Cloud) d. extensions, such as sidecar managements, multi-tenancy design & implementations, integrating legacy services with cloud native services, etc e. architecture, such as re-designing with cloud native patterns- Worked on off-premise solutions, such as alternative services, architecture re-design and transformation.- Led a small group working on CNCF Conformance tests for Sofastack(since v1.12).- Contributed general proposals/scenarios to upstream community.- Speaker of KubeCon NA/Euro/China around Kubernetes adaptions and customizations in Ant Group. Show less

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  Tencent

  Jan 2021 - now

  Staff Software Engineer | Clusternet Founder | Cloud Native Advocate

  - Founder and maintainer of CNCF Sandbox project Clusternet (https://github.com/clusternet/clusternet) with more than 1.2k+ stars a. Clusternet can help manage Kubernetes clusters across heterogeneous environments, such as public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, or at the edge. Clusternet can also help deploy and coordinate applications to multiple clusters from a single set of APIs in a hosting cluster. b. Clusternet is recognized as a company-wide multi-cluster solution and has been widely adopted to run massive business services within Tencent. c. Lead a team of open source contributors (from internal and external) working on open source project Clusternet.- Lead an internal virtual team on collaboration.- Leader of Tencent Kubernetes Oteam, which is a collaboration virtual team across multiple business groups.- Served as a Program Committee Member for "KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023" and "KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023".- Engage in the development of Kubernetes sig-multicluster (Multicluster Special Interest Group) standards to establish a unified API for managing multiple clusters. See https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-inventory-api.- Spoke at multiple conferences, such as Open Source Summit Euro 2022, GOPS China, COSCON, Tencent TVP Closed Meeting, etc.- Outstanding Contributor of Tencent. Show less

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  Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

  Oct 2023 - now

  CNCF Ambassador

  - Advocate for cloud native ecosystem- Served as "Program Committee Member" and "Track Chair" for multiple KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conferences.