Experience

• Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA

  Lead Lepton, NVIDIA's AI platform powering large-scale training and inference for frontier labs.

• Partner Software Architect / Director at Microsoft

  Architected compute platform of Microsoft CoreAI and designed industry's first autonomous AI agent services from 0 to 1 — SRE Agent and Foundry Agent Service.

• Staff Engineer / Sr. Engineering Manager at Alibaba Group

  Built the industry's largest web-scale Kubernetes deployments and led Alibaba Cloud's serverless application platform.

• Software Engineer at HyperHQ

  Built Kata Containers and Hyper.sh; acquired by Ant Financial.

• Research Scientist at Zhejiang University

  Cloud systems and data center research at ICSOFT.

Projects

• Kubernetes

  Production-grade container orchestration. Maintainer.

• KubeVela

  Modern application platform on Kubernetes. Creator. CNCF incubating project.

• Open Application Model

  Cloud-native application delivery specification, co-created by Microsoft and Alibaba.

• Kata Containers

  Industry's first hypervisor-based container runtime. Linux Foundation top-level project.

• Virtual Cluster

  Hard multi-tenant Kubernetes at web scale, co-created at Alibaba.

Education

• PhD candidate, Computer Software Engineering at Zhejiang University

  Left to pursue a startup.

Open-Source Leadership

• Member of CNCF Technical Oversight Committee

  Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Public Speaking

Keynote

• Predictions from the Technical Oversight Committee

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021, with Liz Rice (Isovalent).

• Five Biggest Challenges in App Delivery and How We Solve Them

  Cloud Native + Open Source Virtual Summit China 2020, with Alois Reitbauer (Dynatrace).

Kubernetes at Large Scale

• Embracing Upstream Kubernetes in Web Scale Organization

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona), with Jun Chen (Ant Financial).

• Standardizing Applications for the Cloud at a Global Scale

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020, with Jared Watts (Upbound).

• Announcing the Open Application Model

  QCon Shanghai 2019. Joint launch of the OAM open-source project from Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft.

• Some Lessons We Learned from Moving E-business Giant to Cloud Native

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 (Shanghai), with Siyu Wang (Alibaba).

• Surviving Serverless Battle by Secure Runtime, CRI and RuntimeClass

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona), with Xiaoyu Zhang (Alibaba).

KataContainers / Sandbox

• Tutorial: KataContainers the Hard Way — Kubernetes + containerd + KataContainers

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle), with Xu Wang (HyperHQ).

• More Than Secure: Containerd + KataContainers as Kubernetes Runtime

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai), with Fupan Li (HyperHQ).

• CRI: The Second Boom of Container Runtimes

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen), with Xu Wang (HyperHQ).

• Success of CRI: Bringing Hypervisor Based Container to Kubernetes

  CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin).

• Bringing Security and Multi-tenancy to Kubernetes

  LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europe 2016 (Berlin).

Others

• Navigating the App Delivery Landscape While Solving Everyday Problems

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020, with Alois Reitbauer (Dynatrace).

• Introduction to the CNCF App Delivery SIG

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, with Alois Reitbauer (Dynatrace).

• Deep Dive: Virtual Kubelet

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona), with Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft).

• Technical View: Comparison of Container Orchestration and Management Systems

  CloudNativeCon + KubeCon 2016 (Seattle).