Summary
Steven Lian is a seasoned cloud and AI solutions leader with over 15 years of experience architecting and delivering large-scale cloud, ML and IoT programs across China and APAC. Currently Director of Solution Engineering for Cloud+AI at Microsoft, he previously led high-performing Cloud Solutions Architect teams at Google Cloud, driving application modernization, smart analytics and generative AI adoption for top go-global clients. He has a strong track record winning strategic FSI and enterprise deals, building deep learning pipelines (Caffe/TensorFlow) and architecting IoT and connected-vehicle solutions that move mission-critical systems to public cloud. Equally comfortable in hands-on R&D and team building, he established agile engineering practices and led global product teams at HP and VMware earlier in his career. Based in Hong Kong, he blends technical depth in distributed systems and in-memory computing with commercial acumen for cloud migrations and platformization. A pragmatic innovator, he often focuses on repeatable reference architectures that turn pilots into large-scale, revenue-generating deployments.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
English, Chinese