William Zhong

William Zhong is a highly experienced professional with over 10 years of enterprise-level R&D development in Java/J2EE and more than 6 years in senior developer/architect roles. He has 3+ years of expertise in cloud computing and agile development methods. William has an impressive track record with 20+ product launches spanning his tenure at Crystal Decisions, Business Objects, and SAP.

His technical skills include proficiency in Java 8, Akka, Kafka, Zookeeper, Apache Thrift, and MyBatis. William specializes in Java/J2EE, HTTP/Web tier, and building enterprise scalable distributed systems.

William's academic background includes a Master of Software Systems from The University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In terms of professional experience, William Zhong has held key roles at various organizations. He is the Founder and CEO of Awakedata. Previously, he served as the Senior Director of Software Development at Istuary Innovation Group, Software Architect at Wurldtech Security Technologies, Development Architect at SuccessFactors (an SAP Company), and Development Architect at SAP. William also held positions as a Senior Developer I/II, Development Team Lead, and Software Developer at both Business Objects and Crystal Decisions. He started his career as a Software Developer (Co-op) at Altus Solutions and has worked in roles like Software Consultant at Maxim Group, Team Lead at China Telecom, and Engineer at China Telecom.