Ruiqi Zhou is a software engineer with four years of professional experience, currently building backend systems at Alibaba Group from Fujian, China. He has hands-on expertise in protocol-level C development, having contributed core logic and reliability fixes to Alibaba’s high-profile xquic implementation of QUIC and HTTP/3. Ruiqi’s work on transport, congestion control, pacing, NAT rebinding and QPACK demonstrates a focus on performance and resilience in real-world networking stacks. He interned at Google and rose through an Alibaba internship into a full-time engineering role, reflecting strong practical exposure to large-scale production systems. A Zhejiang University computer science graduate, he blends systems-level depth with pragmatic testing and enhancements that improve operational robustness.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
XQUIC Library released by Alibaba is a cross-platform implementation of QUIC and HTTP/3 protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 39 reviews, 31 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ruiqi primarily contributed to the core logic of the XQUIC library. Their work involved modifying C source code files related to transport, congestion control, and HTTP/3 functionalities. They implemented fixes and enhancements for crucial components like pacing, connection management, and the QPACK implementation, along with test case additions. These changes indicate a focus on improving the library's reliability and performance, specifically in areas such as NAT rebinding and encryption.
Contributions:32 PRs, 239 pushes, 61 branches in 1 year 2 months
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