Experience

Foothill Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Partner

  • Jun 2020 - Present



Facebook

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2020 - Apr 2023

  Meta (Facebook) infra, core systems, capacity management, transforming Meta's internal infra to a global scale cloud platform. Meta (Facebook) infra, core systems, capacity management, transforming Meta's internal infra to a global scale cloud platform.



Alibaba Group

• China
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Advisor to Executive Vice Chairman

  • Nov 2018 - Apr 2020



Alibaba Cloud

• China
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Architect, Alibaba Cloud

  • May 2015 - Nov 2018

  - In charge of driving the overall architecture vision of Apsara, Alibaba's proprietary infra stack. Directional alignment and engineering productivity. Defining company-wide mid-to-long term technology strategies and initiatives, and engineering roadmaps. - Led a small team of high caliber ICs to conduct technology investigation, incubation and external partnership. - Defining the architectural standards and expectations of all Alibaba cloud products, and led the company-wide product architecture review program- Led a number of critical company-wide XFN projects. Show less

• President of Alibaba Cloud US R&D Center

  • Aug 2011 - Feb 2018

• Senior Director, Apsara Cloud Platform (飞天)

  • Nov 2010 - May 2015

  Led the development of Alibaba’s proprietary infra stack Apsara. Also led the development and public launch of many of Alibaba Cloud’s core cloud products: ECS, EBS, OSS, OTS, ODPS, RDS. Grew the core team from less than 100 by 4-5x. Grew the scale of a single cluster to 5000 nodes in 2013. Won SortBenchmark contest in 2015 by beating the previous record by 3.7 times.



TSVC Capital

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Partner

  • Nov 2015 - Mar 2017

  TEEC Angel Fund is a venture fund focusing on early stage start-ups. Our area of interests include Biotech/Healthcare, Fintech, Hardware, Consumer and Enterprise. So far, we have invested over 130 companies with 7 successful exits and 7 companies with over 100 million valuation. TEEC Fund III investment has incepted. We will continue investing on early stage startups and we do follow on investment on our portfolio companies. Within our ecosystem of a hundred portfolio CEOs, Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC) networks, elite accelerators, and top-notch universities, we support entrepreneurs with bigger dreams. Show less



Yahoo

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Principal Engineer, Hadoop Development

  • May 2008 - Nov 2010

  In charge of Hadoop performance engineering. In charge of Hadoop performance engineering.



IAC

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Search Engineering

  • Sep 2003 - May 2008

  In charge of the development of search infrastructure middleware, crawling, web content clustering, enterprise log mining, etc. In charge of the development of search infrastructure middleware, crawling, web content clustering, enterprise log mining, etc.



Teoma Technologies

• Software Development

• Search Engineer

  • Jun 2000 - Aug 2001

  One of the founding engineers for this search engine startup. It was later bought by Ask Jeeves, which is now part of IAC. One of the founding engineers for this search engine startup. It was later bought by Ask Jeeves, which is now part of IAC.