About

Chris Zhang is a highly experienced Java software engineer with over 14 years of experience in the field. He is currently working as a Java software developer at akido labs. Chris has worked with several top companies in the past, including unitedstars international ltd. and yamibuy.com, where he held the positions of Java developer, team leader, and senior software engineer. During his time at unitedstars international ltd., Chris was responsible for designing and building the architecture of the restful web service with Spring, Mybatis, and MySQL, which was distributed to ctrip.com and alibaba. He also managed project progress and coordinated team members’ daily work, coded the major part of the project, and reviewed codes from member’s pull requests. Additionally, Chris dealt with the static data integration of several hotel providers, designed and developed the responsive and efficient search system using ElasticSearch, and integrated APIs from popular hotel providers into their hotel system. He also used AWS for deploying web service and website hosting. While at yamibuy.com, Chris designed and built the architecture of the restful service for the popular online shopping website, integrating with Chase Bank Gateway and Paypal to build the payment services. He also built the smart and fast search service with ElasticSearch for the astronomical amount of products in tons of different categories. Chris used Oauth to implement third party login, Nginx as a Front-end and webservice load balancer, and implemented read and write split and master/slave sync system. He also used AWS for deploying web service and website hosting and used Kafka as a Messaging System. Chris has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science from hebei university of technology. He is proficient in Java, AWS, MySQL, Elastic Search, Spring, Redis, Kafka, Mobile, Frontend, and other relevant technologies. With a total of 17.13 years of relevant experience, Chris is a highly skilled and dedicated software engineer who is always striving to improve his knowledge and skills.