Liang Zhang
SphereEx Founder & CEO, Apache Member, Apache ShardingSphere, ElasticJob Founder & PMC Chair, Tencent Cloud TVP, Microsoft MVP.
Zhang is enthusiastic about open source, a thought leader in the field of distributed architectures based on Java, and is always striving to promote clean code. Currently, he focuses on turning Apache ShardingSphere into an industry-leading financial-grade distributed database solution.
His book “Future Architecture:From Service to Cloud Native” was published in 2019, and was well received by both critics and the community.
His paper “Apache ShardingSphere:A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding” was published on ICDE in 2022.
Zhang was awarded the title of “Top Ten Open Source Contributor of 2020” , “Top Ten Distributed Database Pioneers of 2021” awarded by CSDN, and “The 33 China Open Source Pioneers in 2021” by SegmentFault.
Personal
English Name Liang Zhang
Gender Male
city Beijing, China
Professional Title SphereEx Founder & CEO
Community Title Apache Member & Apache ShardingSphere PMC & Apache ShardingSphere, ElasticJob Founder & PMC Chair.
E-mail zhangliang@apache.org
Twitter LiangZh52199766
Education
- Commercial Software Development at the Waterford Institute of Technology
Career
- SphereEx Founder & CEO (Apache ShardingSphere, SphereEx DB Plus Engine，Database Mesh)
- JD Architecture Expert (Apache ShardingSphere)
- Architecture Director of Dangdang (Elastic-Job, Sharding-JDBC)
Award
2021
2020
Event & Conference Appearances
2022
2021
- 2021 Distributed Database Developer Conference - “Distributed Databases’ Proxy and Proxyless Architecture”
- openGauss Summit 2021 “Using ShardingSphere to build openGauss high performance ecosystem”
- DTCC Database Technology Conference China 2021 - “Creating Standard for Database: Apache ShardingSphere’s Blue Ocean Exploration in Database Plus”
- QCon International Software Development Conference “From a Ten-Year Open Source Contributor to a Commercial CEO”
- ApacheCon Asia 2021 — Middleware Track Chair
- Open Source Day hackathon support
- 2021 OSCAR Open Source Industry Conference “SphereEx’s Exploration of Open Source Commercialization Based on Apache ShardingSphere”
- Geek Time Java Live Streaming Week “ABC of Apache ShardingSphere from Source Code”
- Amazon Cloud Technology China Summit - “Developing New Ideas of Data Service”
- CHAOSS Meetup 2021 - “Apache ShardingSphere Community Development Based on Open Source”
- Online Sharing Session with Yougu Academy of Japan “Upper Layer Standard of Pluggable Database - Apache ShardingSphere”
- openGauss Meetup (Beijing) - “Chemical Reaction Between ShardingSphere and openGauss”
- DataFun Summit 2021 - “Blue Ocean Exploration of Apache ShardingSphere”
- Exclusive Interview with InfoQ: 30 New Open Source Innovators, “Home-Grown Open Source Should Offer More Incentives to Developers”
2020
- 11.07 Filmed ALC Beijing Episode #4 : Technology Architecture, Community and Conway’s Law
- 10.25 Sharing at COSCon'20 & Apache Roadshow - China Explanation of Reborn Distributed Scheduling Middleware ElasticJob
- 10.23 2020 Software Soul Casting · National Tour (Hefei) Open Source Software Forum
- 09.29 Presentation Apache ShardingSphere 5.x New Features on ApacheCon 2020
- 09.25 Chair of Service Governance at CSDI Summit - 2020 Software Development Management Industry Technology Summit
- 04.25 PostgreSQL Chinese Community Vol. 6 Live Broadcast - The Joint Building of Apache of ShardingSphere
- 04.10 [Digital Technology Learning Week] Lesson 3 Live Broadcast - Creating Distributed Databases Based on Apache ShardingSphere
- 03.20 [Technology Talk] Special for Open Source Live Broadcast - How to Jointly Develop Apache ShardingSphere
- 02.26 JD Digital Science and Technology Lecture Live Broadcast - Creating Distributed Database Based on Apache ShardingSphere
2019
- 12.08 Hosted Apache ShardingSphere & DolphinScheduler Co-Meetup
- 11.26 Sharing at Meituan-Dianping TopTalk - Creating Distributed Database Based on Apache ShardingSphere
- 11.09 Sharing with the Way of Open Source at Tsinghua University, Exploration and Extension of the Apache ShardingSphere Community
- 09.10 Presentation Observability in Distributed Systems at ApacheCon NA 2019
- 06.23 Chair of GIAC 2019 Special for Middleware & Sharing Apache ShardingSphere (Incubating) Ecosystem Under Cloud-Based Digital Architecture
Articles & Written Contributions
2022
2021
- Article published on InfoQ “These Engineers Rewrote 260,000 Lines of Code to Help You Choose Database Models”
- Article published on Chuxin Capital “SphereEx CEO Liang Zhang: Migrating Databases to the Cloud is the Trend｜Chuxin Interview”
- Article published on OSC Open Source Community “Liang Zhang: Created SphereEx for the Development of ShardingSphere, and is Optimistic About Cloud Subscription System”
2020
- 11.17 Article published in Open Source China - From Middleware to Distributed Database Ecosystem, ShardingSphere 5.x Changes
- 08.10 Article published in CSDN - After Years of Stagnation, ElasticJob Returns with Its First Apache Version: 3.0.0-alpha!
- 07.09 Article published on InfoQ - ElasticJob Product Positioning and New Version Design Concept
- 07.08 Article published on Open Source China - Topping the Chart on GitHub & Rebooting ElasticJob
- 04.21 Article published on ALC Beijing - One Successfully Incubated Program of Apache – Twists and Turns of Creating Apache ShardingSphere
- 04.20 Article published on CSDN - 10K+ GitHub Stars, Open Source Apache Top-Level Project ShardingSphere
- 04.20 Article published on Open Source China - 80% of Code Were Submitted by One Person, How Did Apache ShardingSphere Graduate from ASF and Be Promoted TLP
- 04.17 Article published on InfoQ - ShardingSphere Graduating as an Apache Top-Level Project
2019
Audio
- The Data Way Vol. 1 Great Opportunity for the Open Source Market: The Relationship Between Open Source and Business
- The Data Way Vol. 2 It’s Not Easy to be a “Pure” Programmer
- The Data Way Vol. 5 There is a Battle Between Capital and Open Source
- Podcast Episode #2 (EP1): Joys and Excitements of the Apache ShardingSphere Developers
- Podcast Episode #2 (EP2): Joys and Excitement of the Apache ShardingSphere Developers
Video
- DTCC Database Technology Conference China 2021 - “Creating Standard for Database: Apache ShardingSphere’s Blue Ocean Exploration in Database Plus”
- Online Interview - “Developing New Ideas of Data Service”
- ABC of Apache ShardingSphere from the Source Code
- The Joint Development of Apache of ShardingSphere