Guanlan Dai
Site Leader, China at Kong Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGuanlan 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 UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Guilin University of Electronic Technology
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (95)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
controller10
consul10
gorilla10
kong10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
native-api10
k8s10
api10
ai10
golang10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guanlan/guanlan.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
guanlan/guanlan
Jul 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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