I build product, ship codes, and do fun stuff.
My journey
- Born and grew up in Beijing, China
- Undergrad at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Master from Cornell
- Joined Oracle 2011 as software engineer and built the 1st gen public cloud infrastructure
- Product manager at Google since 2017, and founded 0-1 products that reaching $xxxM ARR
- ✨ gemini, rag engine (2023 - )
- 🌐 grounding with google search (2023)
- 🌴 palm 2 api (2022 - 2023)
- 📚 cloud knowledge graph (2022)
- 📑 document ai (2019 - 2022)
- ⚙ automl, natural language api (2017 - 2019)
- Currently lead Gemini API on Vertex, with 50x token usage growth YoY
My philosophy
- Growth mindset: learning many things every day.
- Speed is a feature: shipping fast is the new moat for AI.
- Break rules, sometimes: to achieve the extraordinary, one has to challenge the ordinary
- The way we build software is evolving rapidly.
- Great team thrives on the synergy of diverse backgrounds and complementary expertise.
Beyond work
- Photography & Travel, with my Sony a7r4, DJI Mavic Pro and Hasselblad 907x
- Piano, "Liszt Liebestraum" is my current favourite
- Investing in early stage startups that I believe can change the future of how we live: StokeSpace, Alto, Commonwealth Fusion, Captiv8, Indicio etc
- Blogging in Chinese about life, work and my view of the world