andyzhangx - Overview

Hi there, I'm Andy Zhang (张夏) 👋

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, leading storage and AI infrastructure in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Currently focused on optimizing AI/LLM inference workloads on Kubernetes. Maintainer of KAITO, SMB/NFS/Azure CSI drivers, and other CNCF projects.

🚀 Open Source Projects I Maintain

🤖 AI / LLM Inference on Kubernetes

Project	Role	Description
KAITO	Maintainer	Automates AI/LLM model inference & tuning on Kubernetes — similar to Nvidia Dynamo and llm-d
KEDA-KAITO Scaler	Maintainer	KEDA external scaler for autoscaling KAITO inference workloads

💾 Upstream Kubernetes Storage Drivers

Project	Role	Stars
https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-nfs	Owner
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/sig-storage-local-static-provisioner	Owner
https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-smb	Owner

☁️ Azure CSI drivers and Cloud Provider

Project	Role
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver	Owner
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azurefile-csi-driver	Owner
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/blob-csi-driver	Owner
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure	Owner

🏆 Highlights & Achievements

🥇 #1 CNCF project contributor in China (2024)
🏅 Kubernetes Contributor Award Winner (2022) — SIG Storage
🏅 Nominee — CNCF Top Committer Award (2025)
🧑‍🏫 Mentor — LFX Mentorship (Linux Community Bridge), guiding students on Kubernetes projects

🎤 Conference Talks

Year	Conference	Talk
2025	KubeCon Hong Kong	Kata Confidential Containers Meet Persistent Storage: Overcoming CSI Driver Challenges
2024	KubeCon Hong Kong	Deep Dive Into Windows CSI Driver HostProcess Containers
2020	KubeCon Europe	Deep Dive into Cloud Provider for Azure
2018	LC3 China	HOL: Build & Deploy a Basic Kubernetes Application using Azure AKS

📝 Recent Writing

Autoscale KAITO inference workloads on AKS using KEDA — AKS Blog, Feb 2026