Gilbert Lau
Principal Solutions Architect at solo.io
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGilbert Lau is a Principal Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures across the U.S. and Asia Pacific, currently focused on API gateway, service mesh, and developer portal solutions. He has held senior roles at Solo.io, Redis, HPE GreenLake, DataStax and VMware, blending hands-on engineering, product management, and strategic partner leadership to drive real-world platform adoption. Known for leading fast-paced Agile teams, he pairs deep technical fluency in distributed databases and cloud services with strong business acumen and negotiation skills. Multilingual and cross-cultural, he leverages U.S.–Asia Pacific experience to build alliances and scale solutions globally. Unusually for an architect at his level, he combines an MS in Computer Science and an Executive MBA-equivalent background, enabling him to translate complex technical trade-offs into commercially viable roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyExecutive Leadership Program in Innovation, Executive Leadership Program in Innovation at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
English, Chinese
Github Skills (165)
skaffold10
terraform10
ubuntu10
gcp10
dse10
google-cloud10
istio10
microservices10
cloud-native10
charts10
kustomize10
datastax-enterprise10
grpc10
kubernetes10
datastax10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DSPN/oracle-jumpstart
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:8 releases, 6 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 6 months
DSPN/install-datastax-redhat
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 releases, 85 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
dsebash-scriptsbashconfiguredatastax
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