Kunshui Zhu
Open Source Developer at The Apache Software Foundation
Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
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Top SchoolKunshui Zhu is an open source developer with six years of experience focused on backend systems, API gateways, and observability tooling. As an Apache ShenYu committer and PPMC member, he strengthened integrated testing and plugin interactions for a high-profile Java API gateway, improving stability across authentication, rate limiting, and protocol adapters. He also implemented an OpenTelemetry plugin for Apache ShardingSphere, adding tracing to SQL parsing and JDBC execution and contributing tests and bug fixes that enhanced observability. Based in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, Kunshui is fluent in Java and actively learning Go and cloud-native practices, bridging traditional JVM ecosystems with modern telemetry and distributed systems. His background blends hands-on test-driven engineering with a focus on making complex middleware more reliable and measurable.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Information and Computing Sciences, Bachelor's degree, Information and Computing Sciences at Northeastern University (CN)
Github Skills (23)
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distributed-tracing10
http10
java10
javas10
junit10
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api-gateway10
spring-boot10
jtest10
opentelemetry10
rate-limiting9
json9
jwt9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/shenyu
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Apache ShenYu is a Java native API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion and API governance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 reviews, 58 commits, 128 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kunshui primarily contributed to the integrated tests for the Apache ShenYu API Gateway. Their work focused on modifying existing test classes, introducing new test cases, and refactoring code related to HTTP requests, JWT authentication, context path configurations, rate limiting, sign plugin and cryptor request, and the combination of dubbo and request plugins. These changes involved core functionality testing and plugin integration, improving the overall testing coverage and stability of the ShenYu gateway project.
api-gatewaykong-pluginproxyshenyugrpc-proxy
apache/shardingsphere
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kunshui primarily contributed to the development and integration of an OpenTelemetry plugin for the ShardingSphere project, adding tracing capabilities to various components. This involved implementing advice for tracing SQL parsing and execution, including JDBC calls. The user also addressed bug fixes in existing agent code and added unit and integration tests to validate the OpenTelemetry plugin.
dbmsrdbmsdatabase-systemmore-featuresbigdata
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