Jeff Tao
Entrepreneur at TDengine
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeff 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.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
11reputation
375reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (22)
timeseries-database10
monitoring10
time-series10
financial-analysis10
iot10
tdengine10
sql10
iiot10
scalability10
cloud-native10
database10
time-series-forecasting8
anomaly-detection7
timescaledb6
machine-learning5
Programming languages (5)
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
iiotiottimeseries-databasebigdatatime-series
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