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)