Xumin Zhou
软件工程师 at Kong Inc.
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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RockstarXumin Zhou is a software engineer based in Shanghai with four years of hands-on experience building and improving backend systems. Currently at Kong Inc., Xumin contributes to the widely used open-source Kong API Gateway, focusing on core bug fixes, protocol refactors, RPC handling, and router/path handling to improve performance and reliability. He has a practical knack for removing deprecated features and resolving subtle context-related logging issues, which helps keep production systems clean and maintainable. Comfortable working in cloud-native environments, he blends attention to low-level protocol details with pragmatic improvements that scale. An understated strength is his focus on performance tuning of request handling, suggesting a deep appreciation for both correctness and operational efficiency.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
lua10
go10
api-gateway10
reverse-proxy8
admin7
api-design7
database7
databases7
apim7
microservices-application7
api7
microservices7
database-administration7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 785 reviews, 87 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Xumin primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the core components of the Kong API gateway. Their work included removing deprecated features, handling RPC calls, and addressing context-related issues in the logging phase. They also refactored wRPC protocol handling and improved performance of request headers. The user also worked on handling different types of paths with the router.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
StarlightIbuki/kong
Mar 2022 - May 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway
Contributions:11 PRs, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
api-gatewaygolangapinative-apidocker
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