Zhoujing CHEN

Planning Engineer & Software Developer

About

I’m a Planning Engineer based in Paris, focusing on the intersection of Operations Research and Software Engineering. I spend most of my time building end-to-end optimization tools that turn complex, real-world constraints—like nationwide logistics networks or volatile trading markets—into reliable, automated decision systems.

Currently, at Gofo France, I design and deploy nationwide districting optimizers and routing pipelines using Python and CPLEX/DOcplex. My background is a mix of CS and OR (M.Sc. from PSL), which gives me the unique perspective to both model the mathematical core of a problem and build the robust backend systems needed to run it at scale.

Whether I'm optimizing a supply chain or automating intricate workflows, I'm a firm believer in finding elegant paths through technical noise to create systems that actually work.

Resumes

Experience

Planning Engineer – Logistics Network Optimization

Nov 2025 – Present

Gofo France, Paris

  • Built a Python + CPLEX/DOcplex postal-code districting optimizer using MIP, adjacency graphs, and flow/boundary-penalty formulations to create contiguous, compact, workload-balanced DSP territories under excluded, bound, and locked-code constraints.
  • Developed a Python + OSRM DSP park-and-walk route planner with service-stop clustering, parking-candidate snapping, and TSP solving (heuristic fallback + exact CPLEX for smaller instances) to improve dense urban last-mile routing.
  • Built a Python + OSRM + CPLEX mixed-fleet linehaul/distribution CVRP with pallet capacities, trip-cost pricing, route-duration limits, and secondary-depot scenario evaluation to compare direct-ship and hub-assisted network designs.

Quantitative Research Intern – Reinforcement Learning Trading

Feb 2025 – Jul 2025

First Moment, Shanghai

  • Built a minute-level BTCUSDT perpetuals RL trading framework with separate train/validation and a strict out-of-sample holdout; evaluated under next-bar VWAP execution with realistic transaction costs.
  • Designed a continuous-action policy with standardized time series features; mapped target position to fixed notional partial adjustments to cap turnover and suppress noise trades.
  • Proposed a reduced-clip schedule for PPO with momentum-based pretraining; implemented baselines (DQN, DDPG, Bollinger, momentum) and observed superior risk-adjusted performance on the holdout.

Research Intern – Synchromodal Transportation & Resilience

May 2024 – Nov 2024

Group R3 – CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette

  • Built a reproducible CPLEX/OPL environment and modeling guide; implemented a baseline intermodal MILP and a synchromodal extension where flexible services activate only after fixed capacity is saturated, to quantify resilience benefits.
  • Extended the models to a time-expanded network with full cost accounting (timetables, handling/warehousing, carbon tax) and disruption-adjusted truck travel times, enabling rapid replanning under sudden outages.
  • Prepared a scenario suite (baseline demand, capacity reductions, link outages—single-node to regional cascade) and compared integer-flow vs. relaxed formulations with abandonment penalties to assess trade-offs in solution quality and runtime.

Backend Development Intern

Jun 2023 – Sep 2023

Merit Interactive Co., Ltd., Hangzhou

  • Developed and maintained large-scale backend and data processing services using Java, Spring Boot, Spark, Amazon S3, and ClickHouse on Kubernetes.
  • Participated in the full SDLC from requirements analysis to deployment, delivering multiple feature iterations on schedule.
  • Built and fixed RESTful APIs with clear controller and service layers; produced internal API documentation.

Software Development – VAT Automation

Apr 2021 – Present (Intermittent)

LOGEFI SERVICES, Paris

  • Automated end-to-end French VAT (TVA) workflow on impots.gouv.fr (login, declaration/payment, receipts/status), serving 20k+ client entities.
  • Implemented with Selenium, openpyxl, PyMuPDF, pandas, and Tkinter. Packaged PyInstaller apps for non-dev use.
  • Ongoing maintenance (Sep 2023 – Present): multiprocessing crawler and CNN-based automated CAPTCHA recognition.

Core Skills

Languages & Modeling

JavaPythonGoC/C++JuliaTypeScriptSQLOPL

Frameworks & Solvers

SpringAngularSparkCPLEXDockerKubernetes

Data & Infrastructure

PostgreSQLClickHouseMySQLAmazon S3

AI & Workflow

CodexGemini CLIAntigravityGitSelenium

Education

M.Sc. in Operations Research

2023 - 2025

Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL

Linear & Integer Programming, Network Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, Robust Optimization, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.

B.Sc. in Computer Science (MIAGE)

2021 - 2023

Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL

DUT in Computer Science

2019 - 2021

Université Paris-Saclay – IUT d'Orsay

Projects

Full-Stack Q&A Web Platform

Nov 2023 – Jan 2024

Designed and implemented a Q&A application integrating role-based authentication with Spring Security and JWT. Containerized the stack with Docker for streamlined deployment.

AngularSpring BootMySQLDocker

2024 – 2025

Researching RL heuristics (S2V-DQN) over graphs versus exact solvers. Observed near-optimal quality on structured graphs and comparable results to CPLEX on small cases with much faster execution.

RLStructure2VecDQNCPLEX