张亮

Liang Zhang is the founder and chief executive officer of SphereEx (Beijing SphereEx Software Technology Co., Ltd.). They are an Apache member and the founder of Apache ShardingSphere and ElasticJob, and they serve as the PMC Chair. They published the book Future Architecture: from SOA to Cloud Native in 2019. They previously led architecture at 当当网 (2014–2018), directing ddframe, elastic-job, and sharding-jdbc, and they worked as an architecture expert at 京东数字科技 (2018–2021) focusing on distributed databases and ShardingSphere, with earlier software engineer and management roles at Baidu (2013–2014), Bull (2008–2010), and OfficeDepot (2010–2012).