Summary
Biao Geng is a Technical Expert at Alibaba Cloud with eight years of experience building production-grade stream processing platforms and distributed systems. He is a core developer of Alibaba Cloud’s DataFlow Cluster and the next-generation native Flink execution engine, and an active contributor to Apache Flink and the Flink Kubernetes Operator. His work powers real-time Flink+Kafka deployments used by 100+ business teams and includes advanced features like dynamic CEP patterns and hybrid Java/C++ execution paths. A Carnegie Mellon ECE graduate, he previously improved LinkedIn’s Kafka clients for large-message support, encryption, and compression, and has hands-on ML and network-embedding experience from roles at NetEase and research projects. Pragmatic and curious, he combines deep open-source contributions with product-focused engineering to turn research ideas into resilient, scalable services.
8 years of coding experience
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Engineering(Hons.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering(Hons.) Computer Science at Zhejiang University