Jun Gu is a marketing and open-source leader with 6 years in community-to-commercial growth and a 20+ year technical background in databases and enterprise systems. He has driven measurable developer engagement—raising organic traffic for an open-source project site by 25% and forum traffic by 40%—and launched cost-neutral global webinars that attracted consistent developer attendance. As Director of Open-source & Community at EMQ and later marketing roles at EMQ and Alibaba Cloud, he blends product evangelism, content strategy, and foundation partnerships to move projects into incubations like LF Edge. Previously he shaped go-to-market and open-source strategy for Milvus at Zilliz, helping scale the community to hundreds of enterprise users and thousands of developers and supporting significant fundraising. Comfortable spanning technical depth (DB2, large-scale production systems) and community programs, he uniquely translates low-level database expertise into high-impact developer growth. Based in Shanghai and a Peking University computer science alumnus, he pairs hands-on tech credibility with proven community-driven commercialization.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Peking University
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