Chao Zhang
Tech Director at Alibaba Group
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Zhang is a tech director and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale service-oriented architectures for enterprise and e-commerce systems. He has led critical inventory and global selling platforms at Amazon—driving high-availability, low-latency services that power cross-border listing, eligibility, and fulfillment—and now guides supply-chain initiatives for Alibaba’s C2M business. Skilled both as a hands-on backend engineer and manager, he mentors teams of SDEs to deliver robust, consistent distributed systems. His open-source contributions to Alibaba’s jvm-sandbox-repeater show attention to core JVM tooling, documentation, and build/install reliability—evidence of a pragmatic engineer who bridges production systems and developer ergonomics. Based in Seattle with roots in Beijing Jiaotong University’s software engineering program, he combines global operational experience with deep technical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor Software Engineering, bachelor Software Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University
Chinese
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
jvm10
java10
hessian9
bigdecimal8
build-automation7
tinymce6
python6
documentation6
django6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alibaba/jvm-sandbox-repeater
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
A Java server-side recording and playback solution based on JVM-Sandbox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chao contributed primarily to documentation and made minor code modifications within the `jvm-sandbox-repeater` repository. Code changes included modifications to `AbstractInvocationProcessor.java` and `bin/install-repeater.sh`, which suggests involvement in core functionality and the build/installation process. Further contributions include updates to the `RepeatMeta.java` file in the `repeater-plugin-api` directory, as well as Java 8 time, BigDecimal adapter, and fixing issues.
javajvmserver-side
zhaoyb1990/JVM-Sandbox
Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
Real - time non-invasive AOP framework container based on JVM
Contributions:4 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 5 months
aop-frameworkjvm
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