Summary
Yong Cai is a Senior Technical Manager with over 15 years of telecom and ICT expertise, currently leading modem certification and new feature introduction at MediaTek for advanced 5G capabilities including NTN, RedCap, network slicing and multi-band NR. He is a proven Ericsson subject-matter expert in RAN (5G NR/LTE/WCDMA/GSM), VoLTE, in-building DAS/Het-Net and small cell solutions, with deep hands-on experience in nationwide integration, drive-testing and first-call commercial 5G demonstrations. Yong combines protocol-level troubleshooting (NAS/RRC/PDCP/RLC/MAC/SIP/Diameter/GTP) and OpenStack-based VNF validation with strong IP security practice across PKI, IKE/ISAKMP, IPSec and X.509 deployments. His background spans chipset, vendor interoperability and large-scale operator rollouts, and he pairs technical certifications (Ericsson, CCNA, MCSA, CompTIA Security+) with practical leadership in cross-team projects. Notably, he has driven pioneering 39/28/600 MHz 5G NR test events and integrates handset IOT testing into chipset validation, bridging device, RAN and core network domains.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
English, Chinese, Chinese