Bojun Ji
@bojunji
I build reliable distributed backend systems for fintech, commerce, and logistics.
What I'm looking for
At Zalando, I develop the IDC Gateway for the Bonded IDC program and own fulfillment-side architecture across transportation, customs, warehouse, and platform integrations. I defined cross-system state models, API and event boundaries, retry behavior, and operational alerts for long-running workflows while coordinating rollout across 40+ stakeholders.
I’ve delivered replenishment recommendations for 100+ merchants, translating ML outputs into daily and inventory-triggered reports served through PostgreSQL-backed APIs. I also scaled event feeds with Nakadi SQL fan-out and multi-partition streams, added contract tests, and built Trino-powered insight reports with daily and weekly refresh cycles.
Previously at Shopee and Ant Group, I led teams and remained hands-on across merchant platforms, promotions, insurance workflows, reconciliation, and distributed transactions. My work includes migrating platforms across three markets, reducing promotion-budget operations from three person-days to half a day, supporting 200+ insurance-product launches in a year, and reducing onboarding delivery from 50+ to under 10 person-days.
I build transactional and event-driven systems with Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes. I’m also developing an open-source Matter Intelligence prototype that turns unstructured evidence into persistent, structured matters through extraction, entity resolution, and human-reviewed AI workflows.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Developing the IDC Gateway in Node.js and TypeScript for Zalando's Bonded IDC program, owning fulfillment-side architecture across transportation, customs, warehouse, and platform integrations. Defined cross-system state model, API and event boundaries, retry behavior, and operational alerts for long-running steps.
Led a seven-engineer Merchant & Item team, owning technical direction, delivery, and team execution; later joined Promotions as a system architect and hands-on IC. Led migration of Vietnam's acquired Python platform to the shared Go platform across three markets using phased rollout, dual-write validation, dual-read comparison, and legacy fallback.
Technical Expert / Acting Tech Lead
Ant Group
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022 (3 years 4 months)
Owned policy issuance, servicing, renewals, and claims in Ant's multi-team Insurance Core Platform; served as acting tech lead for four engineers while remaining hands-on. Co-architected a sharded microservice platform supporting 200+ insurance-product launches in one year.
Supported enterprise customers across Australia and Southeast Asia; maintained 95%+ customer satisfaction.
Java Backend Developer
OOCL
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015 (11 months)
Worked on middleware and integration as a Java backend developer.
Backend Engineer
Bank of Communications
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014 (8 months)
Worked as a backend engineer in asset management.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
East China Normal University
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering from East China Normal University from 2009 to 2013.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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