Summary
Qingqing Zhou is a database systems engineer and co-founder who brings 18+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance, scalable database kernels and cloud database services. He contributed to PostgreSQL early in his career, was a core developer on SQL Server columnstore performance at Microsoft, and later led architecture and productization of Huawei’s GaussDB MPP analytics platform that displaced legacy systems in production. At Tencent he drove kernel-level innovations that delivered world-leading TPC results, and today he runs DB3Kernel building new database engines and tools. Known for focusing on performance, scalability and ACID at massive scale, he blends deep kernel expertise with product-minded engineering and a persistent curiosity about what will fundamentally change databases next.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at University of Toronto