Hong Tang
CTO, Alibaba Cloud International
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHong Tang is a seasoned technology executive and CTO of Alibaba Cloud International with a Ph.D. in computer science and nearly three decades of experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems across cloud infrastructure, storage, compute, databases, networking, and monitoring. He combines a design-first engineering philosophy with hands-on implementation, favoring clear interfaces that make complex systems maintainable, operable, and performant. Hong has led and architected Alibaba Cloud R&D globally, served as chief architect and president of US R&D, and contributed engineering leadership at Facebook and Yahoo, reflecting deep cross-functional and cross-geography experience. He also partners with venture firms and angel invests in AI startups, bringing product-minded technical due diligence to early-stage companies. Based in Hangzhou and Sunnyvale, he’s known for digging into performance diagnosis and parallel computing trade-offs—skills he uses to turn research-grade ideas into production-ready infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraB.S. Computer Science and Engineering, B.S. Computer Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
simplify8
mybatis6
mysql6
java6
postgresql5
orm-framework5
orm5
spring-jdbc4
mybatis-plus3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dlovetco/ChoosePhoto
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
dlovetco/PoliceGoApp
May 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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