Siddon Tang
Chief AI Officer, GM Of APAC at TiDB, powered by PingCAP
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddon Tang is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 14 years’ experience building distributed databases, cloud services, and high-throughput systems, now serving as Chief AI Officer and GM of APAC at TiDB (PingCAP). He led the development and regional launch of TiDB Cloud while managing cross-functional teams in engineering, product, business and global support to scale operations across Asia-Pacific. A hands-on database engineer at heart, Siddon is an active open-source contributor to foundational projects like TiDB, TiKV, etcd and RocksDB—work that spans Raft consensus, binlog replication, protobufs and performance-focused C/Go/Rust integrations. His career includes building private cloud platforms and a 5M+/day message push service at Kingsoft, and he brings rare depth across low-level storage, distributed systems and cloud productization. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines operational leadership with ongoing technical contributions, often tackling subtle issues like timezone/fractional-second correctness and GTID-aware replication that keep large systems correct in production.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Automation, Bachelor of Science (BS), Automation at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (91)
python10
rocksdb10
databases10
bash10
c1110
data-parsing10
tikv10
c1710
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
build-automation10
elasticsearch10
concurrency10
elasticsearch-api10
storage-engine10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
siddontang/mixer
Jan 2014 - Oct 2015
a MySQL proxy powered by Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Siddon appears to have been actively involved in developing core back-end functionalities for a MySQL proxy application written in Go. Their contributions center around implementing network client functionalities, including connection establishment, and handling communications with MySQL servers, with a focus on packet processing. The code changes include the definition of data structures, defining error handling and packet processing, alongside basic admin SQL.
golangmysqlproxymysql-clientgo
ledisdb/ledisdb
Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
A high performance NoSQL Database Server powered by Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 684 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Siddon appears to be a back-end developer, primarily focused on implementing core database functionality in the LedisDB project. They introduced the base framework for managing server-side interactions and implemented the client-server RESP protocol. The user also worked on adding support for different data storage options, including KV, list, hash, and ZSet features.
golanggoleveldbredisnosqlnosql-database
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