David zhao
CTO at Aladdin Robotics Holding Inc.
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid zhao is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with over two decades of cross-industry experience spanning TMT, healthcare, AI, and robotics, currently steering product and R&D at Aladdin Robotics to deliver AI- and blockchain-enabled eldercare solutions. He combines deep systems and database expertise—having worked on MySQL at Oracle and Tencent and contributing to KunlunBase development—with strong go-to-market and operations experience from founding privacy-preserving computation startup Seceum and leading sales at Oracle. David has a proven ability to bridge research and commercialization, evidenced by leadership roles in multiple university-affiliated blockchain research centers and launching scalable ventures. He is fluent in privacy-preserving computation techniques (federated learning, SMPC), high-performance database technologies (Oracle, Exadata), and applied AI for health and fintech. Based in Shanghai, he pairs technical authorship and hands-on kernel development with strategic product and channel management, making him equally effective in the lab, the boardroom, and the market.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration at Tongji UniversityBachelor, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai University
Chinese
Github Skills (37)
mysql-database10
postgresql10
mysql10
storage10
mysql-connection10
grammars10
oracle10
serverless10
dbaas10
database10
percona9
oltp9
sharding9
distributed-systems9
provisioning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zettadb/kunlun-storage-081809
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Kunlun-storage is the storage component for Kunlun distributed DBMS. It's developed based on percona-mysql-8.0.x and contains exclusive features used by Kunlun distributed DBMS, performance enhancements and XA transaction crash safety enhancements without which MySQL would not be able to execute XA transactions reliably.
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
dbmsmysqlperconastorage-engine
david-zhao/Kunlun
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Kunlun distributed database cluster
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
distributed-database
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