Summary
Risong Na is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, CI/CD and platform infrastructure systems at companies including Microsoft and Domino Data Lab. He led end-to-end automation projects—creating Domino’s first fully automated CI pipeline and integrating generative AI for automated engineering updates—while owning API and control-plane services for Azure video and CDN platforms. Based in Redmond, he balances technical leadership with entrepreneurship as founder of Lao Na Media, where he builds the leading Chinese golf media presence across YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok and other platforms, and as co-founder of a pet-focused startup. Comfortable in Go and Python and experienced with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS, he brings a practitioner’s focus on production reliability and cross-team collaboration. An electrical and computer engineering graduate of Rice and Shanghai Jiao Tong, he pairs deep systems expertise with an uncommon blend of developer tools, AI automation, and niche community-building.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
Bachelor Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese