Chris (Silei) Z.

Chris (Silei) Z. has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. Chris (Silei) is the founder of a stealth stage startup since 2016. Prior to that, they held the position of Distinguished Engineer at Violin Memory since 2011. Chris (Silei) also worked at SeaMicro Inc. as an MTS and founding engineer from 2008 to 2011, where they were involved in system architecture for data center microservers and developed high-performance software. At Citrix Systems, they served as a Principal Engineer and System Architect in 2007, focusing on load balancing and architecting high-performance data packet engines. Chris (Silei) worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Alcatel Lucent in 2007, contributing to NetBSD operating system and platform software development. Chris (Silei) also has experience as a Senior Software Engineer at Riverstone Networks from 2005 to 2006 and as a Software Engineer at Nortel from 2000 to 2005.

Chris (Silei) Z. attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1990 to 1994, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.