Hong Tang

Building complex distributed systems

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Seasoned technology executive with a great track record of designing and engineering complex distributed system software, and building strong engineering teams. Always taking a design-first approach that ensures a system behaves correctly and predictably in all conditions. Builds software that is easy to understand, maintain, and operate. Digs deep in defining just the right interface that makes a system easy to use yet allows underlying implementation to be highly efficient and performant. Demonstrated success building distributed systems throughout the infra stack, including storage, compute, databases, networking, coordination, monitoring, performance diagnosis, etc. Competencies: - Cloud Infrastructure - Distributed System Design - Big Data - Parallel Computing - XFN Leadership - Software Engineering

Experience

  • Alibaba Cloud (On-site)
    • CTO, Alibaba Cloud International
      Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Chief Architect, Alibaba Cloud
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Design, build, fix a planet-scale computer …

  • Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Angel Investor at Lepton AI
    Aug 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Software Engineer at Facebook
    Oct 2020 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Meta (Facebook) infra, core systems, capacity management, transforming Meta's internal infra to a global scale cloud platform.

  • Technical Advisor to Executive Vice Chairman at Alibaba Group
    Nov 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos