Zongzhi Chen is Manager of the Cloud RDS Team at Alibaba, where he works on cloud database technologies and managed database services. His work is connected to the design, operation, and evolution of large-scale cloud database systems, including RDS and cloud-native database infrastructure. He is one of the primary authors of PolarDB. His main contribution was optimizing PolarDB to be cloud-native database — the specific details are in the CloudJump I/II/III papers. He brings the perspective of a major cloud provider to the OurSQL Foundation board and to discussions about the future of MySQL-compatible technologies in cloud environments.
Zongzhi Chen
Board member of the OurSQL Foundation and Manager of the Cloud RDS Team at Alibaba.