Hong Jiang
Head Of Engineering at EMQ Inc.
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHong Jiang is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, combining a Yale Ph.D. in consensus and self-stabilizing algorithms with hands-on roles at Google and multiple startups. He has led teams and products as CEO of LeanCloud and Head of Developer Services at TapTap, bringing platform-first thinking to developer-facing cloud offerings. His background spans low-level C++ systems (including contributions to a JSON parser) to large-scale search infrastructure and cloud services, enabling pragmatic designs that bridge research and production. Now leading engineering at EMQ, he focuses on reliable, easy-to-use cloud and messaging platforms for developers, while retaining a researcher’s attention to correctness and fault tolerance. An uncommon mix of academic rigor, product leadership, and implementation experience informs his pragmatic approach to building resilient, developer-centric platforms.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Wuhan UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Yale University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
2,300reputation
220kreached
6answers
4questions
typedef
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
json-parser10
json10
c-language10
jsonp10
parsing10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
object-oriented-programming9
typedef9
data-structures9
testing8
vector6
rust6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
hjiang/jsonxx
Dec 2008 - Feb 2021
A JSON parser in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 10 PRs in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hong primarily contributed to implementing and improving the JSON parser in C++. Their work included adding support for new data types like strings and signed integers, addressing memory leaks, and enhancing the overall functionality of the parsing library. The user also added the ability to output JSON values and exposed methods for accessing the key-value map of JSON objects. These contributions demonstrate a focus on building and maintaining the core functionality of a C++ JSON parsing library.
parsercppjsonjson-parser
hjiang/scripts
Nov 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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