Summary
Gene Pang is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience in distributed systems, currently at Databricks after a long tenure as Head Architect and contributor at Alluxio. His background blends rigorous academic research on transactional distributed databases (PhD work at UC Berkeley AMPLab) with production-grade engineering at Google and cloud-native storage orchestration at Alluxio. He focuses on bridging applications and storage for high-performance data access, designing systems that accelerate analytics and hybrid cloud workflows. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he remains active in open source governance as an Alluxio PMC member, reflecting a commitment to community-driven infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious—captured by his GitHub motto “the more you know, the more you realize you don't know”—and pragmatic about turning complex research ideas into scalable products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stanford University