Paul Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO at studio vaai.
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Zhang is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 10 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems from real-time leaderboards to LLM-native platforms. As Co-Founder & CTO at studio vaai. and former member of CHECK24’s CTO Taskforce, he led technical efforts for scalable projects like a decentralized chatbot platform and an AI-driven avatar video service delivered to millions in weeks. He combines hands-on back-end expertise—demonstrated by optimizing database queries, HTTPS, auth and compression for a popular Minecraft analytics plugin—with product-minded leadership that drives cross-team delivery under high load. Based in Munich and trained at TUM, he excels at turning complex data and AI requirements into efficient, maintainable systems and often surfaces performance and security wins that aren’t obvious to end users.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics at Technical University of Munich
English, German
Github Skills (14)
webserver10
javas10
http10
data-collection10
sql10
analytics10
java10
bukkit9
security9
database-design9
plug8
bungeecord8
plugin8
mysql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
plan-player-analytics/Plan
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Player Analytics plugin for Minecraft Server platforms - View player activity of your server with ease. :calendar:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 41 PRs, 40 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Minecraft analytics plugin. They focused on web server improvements, including HTTPS configuration, user authorization with basic authentication, and GZIP compression for efficient data transfer. They also implemented data import functionalities, optimized database queries, and refactored code for performance and maintainability. These changes enhance the plugin's data collection and analysis capabilities, especially regarding performance and security.
bungeecord-plugindata-collectionplayerstatisticsnukkit-plugin
TCPShield/RealIP
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 95 commits in 9 months
bungeecordspigotcraftbukkitvelocitybungee
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