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+#### Name
+
+Qingjie Zhao (@jackzhao)
+ 
+#### Company Affiliation
+
+Alibaba
+
+#### Your work and/or contributions to Dapr
+
+I served in the Dapr steering committee for over a year, participated in meetings and different votings about the technical direction of the project.
+I am actively promoting the Dapr project and community in China to make it more adoptable in that community.
+
+#### Why you are running
+
+I want to make Dapr work better in serverless environments and invest in performance, specifically cold start optimizations and optimizing the performance of the individual APIs.