Summary
Sam Chen is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience bringing Silicon Valley cloud-native and DevOps technologies to Asia, having opened markets across China, Korea, India, Southeast Asia and Singapore. He combines deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, DC/OS and the CNCF ecosystem with a strong commercial track record of creating multi-million-dollar enterprise accounts and localized solutions. Previously APJ regional head at Mesosphere/D2iQ and senior cloud architect at HPE, he has led product localization, go-to-market and technical enablement across large telco and enterprise customers. Sam now focuses on open LLMs and runs OpenCSG, publishing an open-source private LLM and dataset while nurturing a community around it. He is known for bridging legacy-to-cloud migrations and for grassroots open-source evangelism—founding China communities for DC/OS, Docker, OpenStack and GitLab-style DevOps. Based in Beijing with an MBA from Wharton Executive Education and an MS in computer science, he pairs hands-on engineering roots with strategic business leadership.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Wharton Executive Education
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Beihang University
English, Chinese