HU Qiang

Residency Status: Singapore Citizen

Email: [email protected] GitHub: huqiang

Overview

Engineering leader and backend engineer focused on instant messaging, notification systems, and high-throughput distributed services. I work across system design, execution, reliability, and team delivery, with a bias toward simple systems that are observable and maintainable.

Core areas:

Java, Spring Boot, WebFlux, gRPC, MyBatis Plus
Instant Messaging, notifications, backend platforms
Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, HBase, MySQL, DynamoDB, ClickHouse, Hive
Multi-region deployment, high availability, performance tuning
Observability, CI/CD, Docker, Linux, AWS, Alibaba Cloud

Experience

Engineering Director / Senior Engineer, OKX

Jan 2023 - Present

Lead backend design and delivery for in-house Instant Messaging systems.
Work on high-concurrency message delivery, notification workflows, reliability, and operational visibility.
Coordinate engineering execution across backend services, product requirements, release planning, and production follow-up.
Balance architecture choices against latency, failure recovery, operational complexity, and long-term maintenance cost.

Senior Back-end Engineer, Contract Trading BU, Phemex Exchange

Apr 2022 - Nov 2022

Led the solution design and implementation of the core copy trading system and APIs for Copy Trade.
Enhanced APIs for Earn Crypto.

Senior Full-stack Engineer, Big Data Team, Binance

Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

Led the design and implementation of a Machine Learning-based Customer Support Chatbot configuration system.
Enabled Chatbot SaaS with multi-tenancy support to reduce cost and comply with regulations.

Senior Software Engineer, Alibaba Inc

May 2020 - Aug 2021

Designed and implemented a full-stack marketing solution for Daraz.com.
Rolled out an affiliate and brand marketing platform, with internal tracking and attribution capability.
Developed a backend for a live streaming solution, with layered microservices, RPC communication, cache, and message queues for decoupling and performance.
Managed PRD, collaborated with Frontend, Mobile, and QA teams.

Application Developer, Associate, DBS Bank Ltd

April 2015 - April 2020

Designed and developed a self-service dashboard for traders, with configurable tasks/views to replace manual report generation and email workflow.
Migrated from Oracle to MariaDB and Hadoop, refactored code, and set up Presto for cross-data source query and validation.
Migrated from WebLogic to embedded Tomcat, upgraded the codebase, adapted IBM Object Storage, and enabled BTM as transaction manager.
Developed a risk computation module with Spring Boot backend, fully documented APIs, and Vue.js UI.
Initiated Application Security initiatives, onboarded SonarQube and Fortify for code quality.
Designed and implemented a microservice, developed a starter project, implemented Single Sign-On using JWT, and built a Feature Manager to manage service rollout.
Managed a RedHat Dev server, administered GitLab and Mattermost, and implemented Jenkins for CI/CD.

Research Engineer, IDMI, NUS

April 2014 - April 2015

Worked on ReadPeer, a platform for sharing and discussing academic papers.
Designed and implemented the full-stack system, with a SIGMOD publication.

Publications

Qiang Hu, Qi Liu, Xiaoli Wang, Anthony K.H. Tung, Shubham Goyal, and Jisong Yang. DocRicher: An Automatic Annotation System for Text Documents using Social Media, SIGMOD, 2015 PDF

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 2014