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      <li><a href="mailto:flyerhzm@gmail.com">flyerhzm@gmail.com</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://xinminlabs.com">Xinmin Labs</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/flyerhzm">Github</a></li>
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      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/flyerhzm">Twitter</a></li>
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    <h1>About Me</h1>
    <p>My name is Richard Huang, the <strong>Founder</strong> of <a href="https://xinminlabs.com">Xinmin Labs</a>, <a href="https://awesomecode.io">Awesome Code</a> and <a href="https://upgradecode.io">Upgrade Code</a>, I'm also a senior software engineer who has a strong focus on <strong>code quality</strong>, <strong>server performance</strong> and <strong>scalability</strong>.</p>
    <p>Most of my professional work is done in <strong>Ruby</strong>, the <strong>Rails</strong> web framework, <strong>node.js</strong>, and Javascript MVC frameworks <strong>Backbone</strong>, <strong>Angular</strong> and <strong>React</strong>.
    <p>I love contributing to the open source community, have built
    <a href="https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet">bullet</a> and <a href="https://github.com/flyerhzm/rails_best_practices">rails_best_practices</a> gems, and <a href="https://synvert.net">synvert</a>.
    <p>I spoke at <strong>RubyKaigi 2011</strong>, <strong>Railsconf 2012</strong>, <strong>RedDotRubyConf 2013</strong>, <strong>RubyConfTW 2014</strong>, <strong>RubyKaigi 2014</strong>, <strong>Euruko 2015</strong>, <strong>RubyConf Au 2016</strong>, <strong>Rubykaigi 2023</strong> and many times at ruby/rails conferences in China. Please go to
    <a href="https://huangzhimin.com/presentations.html">my presentations page</a> to see more.</p>
    <p>I have built a large high-traffic platform, with more than 250 million users, handle more than 300k rpm. I also built some async non-blocking api services, based on EM + fiber, only 16 ruby instances can easily handle 240k rpm.</p>
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