# Shouzhuo (Shawn) Sun

> Software Engineer at Portworx by Pure Stroage

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shouzhuo

Data, Cloud native, Distributed system

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Portworx by Everpure
Jan 2024 – Present
We provide storage solution to your k8s cluster. Applications, VMs, DR.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Alluxio
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Primary owner of Alluxio on Kubernetes. Deployment, Observability, Testing, Day-0/1/2 Operations, Release. You name it.
• Define user behavior to interact with Alluxio cluster on k8s
• Helm chart to deploy Alluxio 2.x to k8s 
• Helm chart to deploy Alluxio Enterprise DA on k8s
• K8s operator to deploy and manage Alluxio Enterprise AI cluster on k8s
• Reference architecture to deploy Alluxio Edge within Presto/Trino cluster on k8s along with Hive Metastore + Mysql.
• Dashboards for different Alluxio products based on Prometheus and Grafana on k8s
• Provide k8s cluster support to teammates for feature tests, end-to-end workflow tests in the AI eco system.
• Support open-source users on using Alluxio as cache on k8s.

### Software Engineer @ Alluxio
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Research Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Developing an online deliberation platform, hosted in docker on AWS, with Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team using React and Node.
• Designed and implemented user-friendly interface, making people without technical background setting up deliberation rooms possible. Developed various tunable parameters to tailor customer needs.
• As part of the IT team, helped organizations hold online deliberations of hundreds of people worldwide, including Close Up Foundation and Hong Kong Baptist University.

### Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Led undergraduate TAs to grade homework and exams for Discrete Math in Computer Science department. Held office hours and recitation sessions on a weekly basis; designed weekly homework; designed exams.

### Research Assistant @ Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China
Participated biendata competition, where the team was asked to predict user behavior on zhihu.com,  organized by CCIR 2018; ranked 18/324 in the second round.
Reproduced the result of a paper in the field of Influence Maximization.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Duke University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
College of William & Mary
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/-shawn-sun-
- Website: http://shouzhuo-sun.surge.sh/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23