Xinyu Zhou
Co-founder & CTO at The Apache Software Foundation
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolXinyu Zhou is a cloud-native engineering leader and co-founder/CTO with a decade of experience building distributed messaging and streaming platforms, having helped create RocketMQ and led messaging products at Alibaba Cloud that served tens of thousands of enterprises and generated billions in revenue. Now based in Singapore, he builds AutoMQ — a stateless, cost‑efficient Kafka-on‑S3 startup focused on autoscaling, multi‑AZ availability, and single‑digit millisecond latency. An Apache member and PMC mentor, he contributes to flagship open-source projects (RocketMQ, OpenMessaging) and has hands‑on expertise across backend, DevOps, and API usability. He combines deep production debugging and performance tuning skills with product-level vision for how cloud‑native tech will unlock exponential business value.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Zhejiang Gongshang UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
apidoc10
rocketmq10
aws-eventbridge10
mq10
eventhub10
message-queue10
java10
javas10
eventbus10
go10
api10
jekyll10
kubernetes-pods10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openmessaging/openmessaging-java
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
OpenMessaging Runtime Interface for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:141 commits, 1 PR, 283 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Xinyu primarily contributed by adding Java documentation to several core interfaces and classes within the OpenMessaging Java API, including KeyValue, Message, BytesMessage, MessageFactory, and ServiceLifecycle. This indicates a focus on improving the API's usability and maintainability by providing clearer documentation and code clarity. Furthermore, they made minor adjustments to the existing code, which signifies a role in enhancing the API's functionality.
javaruntimeopenmessaging
apache/rocketmq-externals
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Mirror of Apache RocketMQ (Incubating)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 30 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Xinyu's contributions involve merging branches, suggesting integration efforts. The modifications primarily target the `rocketmq-console-ng` module, which includes updates to `MQAdminExtImpl.java`. The user's work likely focuses on enhancing console functionalities, possibly involving management and monitoring features for RocketMQ brokers. These changes reflect a back-end development focus, directly interacting with the core RocketMQ system.
rocketmqjavaincubatingapache
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