Eric Zhao
Software Engineer II at 阿里巴巴集团
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
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Top SchoolEric Zhao is a Software Engineer II at Alibaba Cloud’s High Availability team with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems. He has deep hands-on expertise in microservices and reliability tooling, contributing to notable open-source projects like Vert.x microservice blueprints and Alibaba’s sentinel-golang where he added metric representations and Go module support. At Alibaba he focuses on high-availability design and JDBC-backed service implementations, often refactoring APIs and data converters to improve maintainability and performance. His background includes Google Summer of Code work on Vert.x and an internship-to-hire path within Alibaba’s middleware teams, demonstrating steady growth in distributed systems engineering. Based in Hangzhou and trained in software engineering at Xidian University, he pairs production-grade coding with an open-source mindset reflected in regular repository contributions. Beyond code, his GitHub motto—踏歌长行，梦想永在—hints at a long-term, persistent approach to engineering and learning.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Software Engineering at Xidian University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (15)
golang10
javas10
rest-api10
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
vertx10
jdbc10
java10
resiliency9
sql9
middleware9
rate-limiting8
eclipse6
routes6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sczyh30/vertx-blueprint-microservice
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Vert.x Blueprint Project - Micro-Shop microservice application
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 10 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on implementing and modifying backend components within the Vert.x microservice application. Their contributions included modifications to the project structure, generating and updating converter classes for data objects, and implementing user service functionality using JDBC for database interaction. The user also worked on the product service, refactoring the implementation, and modifying the REST API components.
blueprintevent-loopvert-xshopmicroservice-application
alibaba/sentinel-golang
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
Sentinel Go enables reliability and resiliency for Go microservices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 141 reviews, 62 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the `alibaba/sentinel-golang` repository, a reliability and resiliency library for Go microservices. The user added a Go module file to the project and made code improvements. The user also added a MetricItem representation to support performance metrics.
golangresiliencyrate-limitingreliabilitykubernetes
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