Mark Zhou — Senior Backend Engineer https://markz.io/blog Senior Backend Engineer specialising in Java/Spring Boot, distributed systems, Kafka, and AWS. Based in New Zealand. en-us hi@markz.io (Mark Zhou) hi@markz.io (Mark Zhou) Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://markz.io/blog/hello-world Hello from markz.io https://markz.io/blog/hello-world A quick introduction — who I am, what I build, and why I started writing here. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT hi@markz.io (Mark Zhou) aboutengineeringnew-zealand