Jun Zhou has over 9 years of experience in the technology industry. Jun is currently serving as the Founding Chief Architect and Senior Director of Engineering at Spectro Cloud since July 2019. In their role, they are responsible for leading the architectural design and engineering efforts.
Prior to their current role, Jun worked at Cisco for three years from April 2016 to June 2019, where they served as a Software Technical Lead. Jun joined Cisco through acquisition and led the Cisco Cloudcenter architecture team. Jun was responsible for designing and building a Kubernetes-based common framework and automating the full lifecycle management of Kubernetes for public and private clouds.
Before joining Cisco, Jun worked at CliQr Technologies as a Principal Software Engineer from January 2014 to April 2016.
Jun's career started at Baidu, Inc. in May 2010, where they served as a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, they were the technical lead of the Baidu Accounts & Baidu Application Open Platform team. Jun built distributed systems that supported billions of requests per day.
Overall, Jun Zhou has a strong background in software engineering and system architecture, with a focus on cloud-based technologies and distributed systems.
Jun Zhou has a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Information Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was obtained from 2003 to 2007. They then pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2007 to 2010. Following this, Jun Zhou completed another Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California between 2012 and 2013. In terms of certifications, Jun Zhou obtained the following: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist from the CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] in November 2021, Certified Kubernetes Administrator from the CNCF in September 2020, Structuring Machine Learning Projects from Coursera in September 2017, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization from Coursera in August 2017, Neural Networks and Deep Learning from Coursera in August 2017, and Machine Learning from Coursera in April 2017.
July, 2019 - present