Work
Software engineer since 2007, from test infrastructure and cloud platforms at Google and Temporal to co-founding an AI startup in Hangzhou. The full history is on LinkedIn.
Engineering #
Auger, Platform Senior Software Engineer
Built Auger’s autonomous order management system, and moved the company’s ETL pipelines from Fabric to Temporal workflows. Serve as the in-house Temporal expert and Temporal Cloud account owner.
Temporal Technologies, Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
Control-plane lead for bringing Temporal Cloud to Google Cloud, from architecture through general availability in 2025. Designed and shipped Temporal Cloud’s audit logging (GA 2023) and private connectivity rules for namespaces.
Google, Software Engineer & Tech Lead
Twelve years across engineering productivity and Google Cloud: built a company-wide engineering productivity metrics platform, a pricing simulation system for Cloud Billing, and the performance and integration test framework behind the launches of Persistent Disk, Cloud SQL and Compute Engine.
Entrepreneurship #
ZZ Labs LLC, Founder
My one-person lab for testing new ideas and building prototype products. First release: InsightLens, a food-label scanner for iOS and Android.
Bomi AI Technology (Hangzhou), Co-founder & Director
Co-founded a startup building AI-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems. Led engineering end to end, from edge data collection to the cloud platform and customer dashboards, and worked directly with customers, channel partners and investors.
Projects #
A ZZ Labs app for iOS and Android that scans food labels and flags the ingredients you want to avoid. It runs entirely on-device, with no account needed.
Lucation
A short-code service for map addresses and coordinates. Defined the product and architecture, built the backend service and web app, and worked with mobile developers to ship the Android and iOS apps.
Patents #
Building equipment point identification
CN 113590729 B · Bomi AI,
granted 2023 · sole inventor
Automatically classifies unlabeled HVAC sensor points in building automation systems.
Virtual testing environments
US 8,769,102 B1 · Google,
granted 2014
A framework for provisioning on-demand virtual machines for automated software testing.
Publications #
M. M. Aref and Z. Zhou, “The Ontology Web Language (OWL) for a Multi-Agent Understanding System,” International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS 2005), IEEE, pp. 586–591. doi:10.1109/KIMAS.2005.1427149
Honors #
Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), COMAP, 2002