Fangzhou Long is a Senior Backend Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, high-availability systems and scaling a startup from 5 to 150 people as co-founder and partner. He has driven technical strategy and hands-on delivery across Java, Python, NodeJS, and Go, pioneering microservices, containerization, and DevOps practices that boosted performance 30%, cut ops costs 60%, and achieved 99.99% SLA. At Tencent he leads LLM/AIGC backend efforts and helped commercialize text, image, and video generative services while previously architecting AI chatbot platforms and payment/CRM systems that reached millions of MAU. An active open-source contributor, his GitHub includes a large model project with 14k+ stars and an intelligent chatbot repo, reflecting deep practical expertise in productionizing ML. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from USC and pairs strategic product leadership with frontline engineering—often resolving cross-departmental technical and business tradeoffs to ship complex projects on time.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 87%, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 87% at Dalian University of Foreign Languages
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