Summary
Zhiqiang Tian is a Senior Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer with nine years of experience rapidly progressing from junior roles to senior ownership in high-throughput, low-latency systems. He has built and operated production-grade platforms across trading, healthcare EDI, and RAG/AI pipelines using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS serverless ETL, and observability tooling. His work emphasizes resilient microservice architectures, exactly-once consistency, ACID-compliant OLTP modeling, and measurable gains in latency and reliability under real-world load. Notably, he designed a microservices trading capture system handling $100M+ daily volume and later led scalable ingestion and analytics for large healthcare datasets. Based in New Jersey and shaped by studies at Wuhan University of Technology and Duke, he combines practical engineering rigor with a curiosity-driven approach to applying applied AI and automation to backend performance. Technology, he says, comes from life—a perspective that guides his focus on systems that fail gracefully and deliver business impact.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Duke University
Bachelor's degree Logistics Materials and Supply Chain Management, Bachelor's degree Logistics Materials and Supply Chain Management at Wuhan University of Technology