Zhen Zhang, PhD, currently works at Alibaba. He has 12+ years of working experience in IT. He has been working on the cluster management of software applications. He is instrumental in opening Alibaba cluster data to the public. Currently, he is driving design of new kubernetes based replacement for cluster management in Alibaba. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include capacity planning, resource scheduling and cluster management.