Jeff Tao
CEO And Founder at TDengine
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Tao is a serial entrepreneur and engineer who has spent decades turning telecom and mobile innovations into successful companies and products, and currently leads TDengine as CEO and founder. He built TDengine into a widely adopted open-source, cloud-native time-series database (23k+ GitHub stars and 610k+ running instances) focused on Industrial IoT and operational analytics, with managed offerings across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Prior exits include startups in mobile health and mobile-data services acquired by strategic buyers, demonstrating an ability to translate deep technical work into commercial outcomes. His background spans low-level telecom engineering at Motorola and 3Com through to scalable distributed systems, underpinned by advanced studies in astrophysics and computer science. Based in San Jose, he blends product vision, core-engineering experience, and open-source stewardship to tackle high-throughput data problems for industrial customers.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Astrophysics, Master's degree Astrophysics at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor Astrophysics, Bachelor Astrophysics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (37)
monitoring10
timeseries-database10
connected10
internet-of-things10
time-series10
industrial10
bigtable10
financial-analysis10
iot10
timescaledb10
tdengine10
internet10
connection-pool10
sql10
high-performance10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jtao1735/tbase
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
TBase: an efficient way to save/query time-series data
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
querytime-seriestime-series-dataseries-data
taosdata/TDengine
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios
Contributions:41 reviews, 273 PRs, 684 pushes in 5 years 9 months
carsconnectedfinancial-analysistime-seriesindustrial-iot
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