Li Zhou

Senior Technical Expert at Alibaba Cloud

With over 10 years of R\&D experience in the middleware domain, he is a core member of the founding team of Apache RocketMQ. He has long led the architecture design, performance optimization, and stability assurance of ultra-large-scale distributed messaging systems, and has been deeply involved in critical technical challenges for major events such as the Double 11 Shopping Festival. He has extensive hands-on experience in building high-concurrency, high-availability systems. Currently, he is dedicated to technological innovation and implementation of AI-Native messaging middleware, focusing on new messaging architectures for the era of large models. His work centers on advancing technologies for model inference scheduling, asynchronous communication between agents, and intelligent task flow orchestration, driving the continuous evolution of messaging middleware toward greater intelligence.