Diego Hu
Apollo Evangelist at Baidu, Inc.
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolDiego Hu is an Apollo Evangelist and seasoned software leader with eight years of experience driving autonomous driving platform strategy and developer adoption at Baidu in Beijing. He combines hands-on engineering—leading teams that deliver autonomous driving software and cloud services—with product and go-to-market responsibilities, shaping Apollo’s roadmap, positioning, and developer program. Previously he led front-end teams on Baidu’s Phoenix Nest and spent a decade at IBM owning UI leadership roles for enterprise collaboration products. Diego pairs deep technical roots (M.S. in Computer Science) with strategic business training (MBA from Tsinghua), enabling him to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling demos, sample solutions, and partner-ready offerings. Notably, he bridges enterprise UI craftsmanship and large-scale autonomous systems evangelism, making him effective at both developer outreach and high-quality delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Renmin University of ChinaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Chinese Academy of Science
Github Skills (10)
autonomy10
autonomous-vehicles10
machine-learning10
apollo10
self-driving-car10
autonomous-driving10
collections9
graphql7
mavlink3
autopilot2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
diegohu/apollo
May 2018 - Jul 2020
An open autonomous driving platform
Contributions:7 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
autonomousmachine-learningautonomous-drivingmavlinkdriving
diegohu/apollo-kernel
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Collections of Apollo Kernels
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
kernelsapollographqlcollections
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