Ricky Huo is an AI-native technology leader with 20+ years of telco, cloud and digital-transformation experience and a decade focused on engineering and product leadership. He has led large teams and business units across Huawei, Alibaba Cloud, Bespin Global and iSoftStone—building a 1,000+ person digital services company and founding X-Transformation to drive cloud- and data-led enterprise change. As CTO and Head of AI Engineering CoE, he specializes in pragmatic AI adoption using RAG, agents and human-in-the-loop workflows to operationalize LLMs at scale. Hands-on at heart, Ricky contributes to open-source big-data tooling (notably SeaTunnel) with backend and DevOps fixes that improved Spark/Scala compatibility. Based between Beijing and Singapore, he blends deep systems engineering roots with commercial acumen and a philosophical interest in “AI native” transformation. His understated motto—“Keep Calm and Carry On”—reflects a steady, execution-first approach to complex technical and organizational challenges.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Telecommunications, Bachelor, Telecommunications at Xi'an Insitute of Post & Telecommunications
SeaTunnel is a multimodal, high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:29 releases, 67 reviews, 570 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ricky contributed to the core configuration of the data integration tool by fixing the `ConfigBuilder.scala` file. They updated the project dependencies, including updating the Spark version to 2.2.0 and Scala version to 2.11.8 and subsequently to 1.3.0-alpha. They also implemented support for Spark 2.2 across inputs, filters, and outputs and worked on integrating json4s.
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 1 month
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