# Zhikun X.

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zhikun

I'm a self-driven, committed software engineer, passionate about building services that create value for people and make our life better.

I'm motivated to drive complex projects from requirements and planning, solve challenging problems with priority, and keep delivering. I'm willing to go beyond my role as a developer to accelerate the designing, engineering, and improvements of our products through effective cross-team collaboration.

My technical proficiencies include:

• Solid skills in full-stack web service development (backend learning) using Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, MySQL/NoSQL, RESTful API, Angular UI
• In-depth expertise in multi-cloud connectivity, cloud security services, cloud infrastructure management (AWS, Azure), enterprise service integration and automation
• Strong background in management plane of enterprise Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
• Hands-on experience in building cloud-native micro-services on Kubernetes and AWS services
• Exposure to computer vision and video processing (OpenCV), data processing and analysis (NumPy, SciPy, pandas)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Building VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that converges cloud networking and cloud security service to deliver flexibility, agility, and scale for enterprise of all sizes.
https://www.vmware.com/products/software-defined-edge/secure-access-service-edge-sase

### Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, United States
Building VMware SD-WAN that virtualizes the WAN to decouple network software services from underlying hardware - providing flexibility, simplicity, performance, security, and cloud scale.
https://www.vmware.com/products/software-defined-edge/velocloud-sd-wan

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | United States
As the core software developer of undergraduate Engineering Physics labs
• Lead the core software development of engineering Physics lab, a university-funded multi-million project for STEM education innovation (https://tx.ag/PHYSTeachingLabs)
• Designed and built software solution for the innovative lab system from scratch; developed object tracking system using camera vision, featuring efficient video processing and robust tracking algorithm using OpenCV, hardware acceleration and multithreading
• Built user friendly interfaces and modularized libraries for students and developers, customized computing system for the lab system, etc.
• Helped the initial release of production laboratory stations providing innovative learning experience to 3000 undergraduate students each week through interactive programming and collaborative projects
• Co-developed US Patent 11035663 "Systems and methods for characterizing physical phenomena" Jun. 15, 2021 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200064120A1/en)

### Software Developer Intern @ Schlumberger
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Beijing City, China
Designed core data model and workflows of DevOps environment management system for IoT platform of 100+ micro services

### Kernel QE Intern @ Red Hat
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Beijing City, China
Designed and prototyped automated i18n/l10n testing framework for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscription Manager


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Master of Science - MS in Physics
Texas A&M University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Physics
Xi'an Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhikun

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Last updated: 2026-03-22