About
Roy Shaoqing Zhu
What I’m building now
Building reliable commerce backends on Cloudflare Workers + D1; modernizing Java monoliths; graph & vector search for code knowledge.
Snapshot
- 16+ years shipping commerce, advertising, and gaming platforms across APAC & North America.
- Senior architect experience leading distributed systems and data platforms; former senior engineer at Meili Group, Zynga, and Renren.
- Currently completing Conestoga College’s Digital Solutions Management program (2023–present).
Selected wins
- Scaled an advertising billing platform from 50 QPS to 10,000 QPS with a distributed streaming pipeline and multi-DC failover.
- Delivered a multi-tenant Spring Cloud ERP for group-buying operations, pairing TiDB wide-table services with canal + Kafka messaging.
- Built ZEWS, a Puppet + Zabbix powered monitoring and scheduling system that cut fault response time across global game launches.
How I can help
- Cloudflare Workers + D1 migrations for checkout, loyalty, and subscription flows.
- Refactoring Java/Spring monoliths with observability guardrails, locking strategies, and performance baselines.
- Building graph/vector knowledge bases so engineering teams can query code and operational runbooks at scale.
Career timeline
- Senior Architect — Meili Group Limited (2013–2014)
- Senior Game Engineer — Zynga (2011–2013)
- Senior PHP Engineer — Renren Inc. (2008–2011)
- Digital Solutions Management — Conestoga College, Waterloo, ON (2023–present)