Summary
Guanlan Dai is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, API and edge platforms from the ground up. As a founding engineering leader at Kong and now Site Leader for China, he has shipped and led teams across five continents, owned Kong Gateway OSS (a project with broad community impact), and launched Kong Cloud and AI-driven features like Kong Brain. His background at Cloudflare as an early edge-team engineer informs deep expertise in high-performance networking, NGINX/LuaJIT optimizations, and production diagnostics. Guanlan combines hands-on systems architecture with people-building—assembling world-class distributed teams and setting technical direction for complex, high-scale products. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and brings a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to turning ambitious distributed systems ideas into reliable, shipped products.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Northeastern University
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Guilin University of Electronic Technology
English, Chinese