Zongzhi Chen is a Staff Engineer in Alibaba Cloud, where he works in the Cloud Database Products Group.

Before joining Alibaba, Zongzhi Chen worked for 7 years in Database and Distributed Storage at Qihoo/Baidu. At Qihoo, he develop a popular large-storage redis called "pika", which is widely used in Qihoo. Pika is also open source in github and more than 20+ famous and large company in China such as Weibo, Kuaishou use it in their core system. He also develop a distribute key-value storage system called zepplin in Qihoo, zepplin widely use in Qihoo Search system. And he also develop the raft library called "floyd", "floyd" is widely used in many project in Qihoo.

Zongzhi Chen graduated at Southeast University in China with a bachelor degree, and lives in Hangzhou now.