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Hong Tang

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Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

Cloud infrastructure, high-performance computing, and AI infrastructure expert. Founding chief architect at Alibaba Cloud, former Yahoo senior principal engineer, and formerly at Ask.com; PhD from UCSB and studies at Zhejiang.

Experience

  1. Alibaba CloudCTO, Alibaba Cloud Internationalcurrent2023 — presentSunnyvale, California, United States
  2. Alibaba CloudChief Architect, Alibaba Cloudcurrent2023 — presentSunnyvale, California, United States; Hangzhou, China
  3. Foothill VenturesVenture Partnercurrent2020 — present
  4. Lepton AIAngel Investor2023 — 2025
  5. FacebookSoftware Engineer2020 — 2023Menlo Park, California, United States
  6. Alibaba GroupTechnical Advisor to Executive Vice Chairman2018 — 2020Sunnyvale, CA
  7. Alibaba CloudChief Architect, Alibaba Cloud2015 — 2018Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Bellevue, WA
  8. Alibaba CloudPresident, Alibaba Cloud US R&D Center2011 — 2018San Mateo, CA
  9. Alibaba CloudSenior Director, Apsara Cloud Platform (飞天)2010 — 2015Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
  10. TEEC Angel FundVenture Partner2015 — 2017Palo Alto, CA
  11. YahooSenior Principal Engineer, Hadoop Development2008 — 2010Sunnyvale, CA
  12. IACDirector, Search Engineering2003 — 2008Campbell, CA
  13. Teoma TechnologiesSearch Engineer2000 — 2001Piscataway, NJ

Skills & more

Cloud Infrastructure2System Architecture2Cross-functional Team Leadership1Distributed Systems60Scalability39Algorithms22Cloud Computing53Big Data23Computer Science6Large Scale Systems3Data Structures3Storage4
+12 moreStart-upsSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentHadoopMapReduceJavaPerlEnterprise SoftwareLinuxC++Team LeadershipSearch

Languages Chinese · English

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Colleagues at Foothill Ventures

Biao He
Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures
Charles Ling
Investor at Foothill Ventures
James Chen
Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures
Jinlin Wang
Partner at Foothill Ventures
John Matheny
Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures
John Wang
Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures
Lu Wang
Investor at Foothill Ventures
Max Von Poelnitz
Partner at Foothill Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Hong Tang?
Cloud infrastructure, high-performance computing, and AI infrastructure expert. Founding chief architect at Alibaba Cloud, former Yahoo senior principal engineer, and formerly at Ask.com; PhD from UCSB and studies at Zhejiang.
Where does Hong Tang work?
Hong Tang is Venture Partner at Foothill Ventures.
Where did Hong Tang go to school?
Hong Tang studied at UC Santa Barbara (Ph.D, Computer Science); Zhejiang University (B.S., Computer Science and Engineering).

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