Summary
Ce Gao is a seasoned software leader and founder with nine years of experience building cloud-native AI/ML infrastructure and developer tooling. As Co-Founder and CEO of TensorChord, he drives open-source projects that optimize vector storage and reproducible AI environments—most notably a cost-efficient vector store (vectorchord) and a Rust Postgres vector plugin (pgvecto.rs). Previously he led distributed training and AutoML work at Tencent Cloud, ByteDance/Caicloud and contributed core Kubeflow components, blending hands-on engineering with product-level system design. Based in China and rooted in the SJTU community, he combines startup grit with deep open-source stewardship, maintaining projects across sjtug, dyweb, and his own orgs. An interesting detail: his teams have pushed storage-optimized approaches that claim multiple-fold cost savings versus mainstream vector databases, reflecting a focus on pragmatic, production-grade efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Yangjing High School Affiliated to NYU Shanghai
硕士 Computer Software Engineering, 硕士 Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese