Roger Song
Senior Product Manager at Alibaba Cloud
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Song is a senior product leader with 11 years of experience shaping cloud-native and distributed database products, having led strategy for PolarDB-X at Alibaba Cloud and driven TiDB adoption at PingCAP. He began his career as a hands-on database engineer at Oracle, diagnosing performance bottlenecks for mission-critical systems, and later co-founded an operational analytics startup that married software with smart hardware. Roger specializes in HTAP, serverless architectures, and AI-native features like long-term memory for enterprise agents, blending deep technical rigor with commercial GTM and pricing strategies. Known for translating complex distributed systems tradeoffs into clear roadmaps, he has experience working with analyst firms and global markets across North America, EMEA and APAC. Based in Hangzhou, he combines low-level database expertise with product-level vision to turn high-risk technical bets into scalable, revenue-generating products.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, management, bachelor, management at Jilin University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (66)
postgresql10
tikv10
distributed-transactions10
serverless10
cloud-native10
foundationdb10
oltp10
scale10
sql10
database10
mysql10
tidb10
alerts10
analytics10
go10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
songrijie/blk2asm
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
wukongbox/wukongbox.github.io
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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