Kevin Lan
Category Manager
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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RockstarKevin Lan is a seasoned e-commerce Category Manager at Alibaba with 12 years of experience blending product categorization, supplier management, and data-driven merchandising to drive marketplace growth. Based in Hangzhou, he brings a commercial background from sourcing and sales roles that helps bridge supplier relationships and platform strategy. Though his current title is commercial, he’s also an active Apache Flink PMC member and committer, signaling deep technical fluency in streaming data systems that he leverages to improve operational workflows. Known for making systems and processes better, Kevin combines hands-on technical contributions with pragmatic category leadership to optimize assortment and enable scalable marketplace operations.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (35)
hugo10
parallel10
apache-flink10
python10
redis10
redis-protocol10
big-data10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
scala10
redis-cluster10
sql10
optimization10
data-science9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Zakelly/flink
May 2020 - Jul 2026
Apache Flink
Contributions:422 pushes, 322 branches in 6 years 3 months
flinkapachebig-dataapache-flinkjava
ververica/ForSt
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
A Persistent Key-Value Store designed for Streaming processing
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 24 PRs in 1 year
key-value-storesee-team
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