Summary
Ke Dong is a Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer with over 14 years at Google and a 25+ year career in networking, embedded systems, and cloud OSS/BSS, driving wireless and connectivity software across Pixel phones, watches, tablets and hearables. He led cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions—from embedded modem and Wi‑Fi stacks to SDN, CDN and IPTV systems—and pioneered Android features like Next‑Gen Fast Pair, Nearby Share and early UWB phone capabilities. Previously he built foundational access and OSS platforms at Google Access, launched industry-first CBRS SAS work, and architected market-leading soft-switch and CDN products at Cisco. Known for blending product vision with hands-on system design, he consistently ships complex, carrier-grade systems on schedule and scales technical roadmaps across hardware and cloud. Based in Mountain View, he combines deep protocol experience with a rare background spanning applied physics and electrical engineering, enabling pragmatic innovation at the intersection of silicon, firmware and cloud.
14 years of coding experience