Interview with Zhu Shizhi, Head of Infrastructure at Qunar: Building Technical Brand and Cloud‑Native Practices

Interviewee: Zhu Shizhi, Head of Infrastructure at Qunar, joined the company in 2013 as a fresh graduate and rose to technical director within two years, leading the infrastructure team to drive technology‑driven business growth.

Technical Brand Evolution: Zhu describes three stages of Qunar's technical brand: strong influence from 2013‑2016, a dip after 2016 due to market changes and talent loss, and a resurgence starting around 2019‑2020 with even greater impact.

Department Role: The Infrastructure Department aims to master advanced technologies, serve development teams, and boost business. It maintains core frameworks, middleware, front‑end stacks, quality assurance, PAAS platforms, and cloud platforms, providing reusable architecture for product teams.

Key Contributions (past year): The team focused on four areas: experience sharing, open‑source co‑creation, inter‑company visits, and a cloud‑native best‑practice ebook. They presented at dozens of industry conferences, shared large‑scale containerization, chaos engineering, automated testing, and observability practices, earning multiple best‑speaker awards.

Open‑Source Collaboration: Partnered with Alibaba's ChaosBlade team to develop enterprise‑grade chaos‑engineering components such as dynamic traffic matching, log fault simulation, and multi‑call‑point differentiation.

Inter‑Company Visits: Conducted technical exchanges with companies like Meituan and QingCloud, facilitating mutual learning and deep technical discussions.

E‑book: Compiled a comprehensive cloud‑native implementation guide to help peers adopt scalable, systematic solutions.

Content Output: The infrastructure team bridges the gap between open‑source technologies and business systems, delivering practical, hands‑on implementations that resonate with a broad audience.

Feedback from Industry Events: Their talks receive strong positive feedback, with many attendees seeking further contact; speakers have earned gold‑medal recognitions and received additional speaking invitations.

Impact on Qunar's Technical Influence: Broad, generic infrastructure topics attract large audiences (e.g., a cloud‑native livestream reaching over 30,000 viewers), enhancing the company's brand and talent attraction.

Future Plans: Continue leveraging platforms like ITCP and the Internet Technology Committee Alliance for deeper exchanges, expand open‑source contributions, maintain conference sharing, inter‑company visits, and publish more practical resources.