Building cloud data platform (Ellucian Data Platform); Next-gen SaaS Architecture. • Designed next-generation SaaS architecture, putting data platform as the foundation.• Evangelized & make building SaaS data platforms a corporate strategy.• Created the new cloud SaaS product Ellucian Data Platform, as the data hub for higher-ed institutions, including data lake, cloud data warehouse and data applications including reporting, analytics and AI/ML. Drove product vision and scope. • Architected and led development of the Ellucian data platform from 0-1 to expand to full development. Designed the architecture for software, service & AWS cloud. Introduced modern tech such as AWS DMS, EMR, Python/PySpark, Glue, Kafka.• Built and led team to develop strategic solutions & architecture for Open SaaS platform, working with strategic customers and partners (payment, HR, Spend management, etc) to advise, guide and accelerate their SaaS transformation. • Collaborated broadly with R&D, product management, prof services, customers, sales, supports.

Responsible for tech roadmap, architecture, engineering, for cloud, on-prem, and semantic platformsBuilt tech roadmap and vision to develop platform products and infrastructure for constructing intelligence enterprise solutions. Designed and promoted development processes for high quality and engineering excellence.Worked with CPO and CTO to initiate new product such as Workflow. Presented session to technology organizationDrove products conception, architecture and development, including: • Conceived the Workflow product, the next generation workflow and orchestration platform. Developed open source Camunda-based prototype to validate key product capabilities, designed product scope, and worked with CXOs to pitch and start the product. Architected the workflow product platform. Formulated development plan. • Architected Remote Diagnostics, a hybrid cloud system for enterprise monitoring and management, using AWS IoT / S3 / Kinesis and on-prem agents for operational insights and feedback control to customer analytics systems. • Architected Enterprise Semantic Graph, the data-driven intelligence platform and services for search/recommendation/prediction to enable next generation analytics experience and capabilities, using elasticsearch graph, and AI/ML technologies. Evangelized to Product Owners cross technology organization and collaborated on requirements. Developed the initial prototype to validate architecture (in node.js, JavaScript, mongo, RabbitMQ), designed phased development strategy, guided teams in development. • Architected a Unified Logging architecture for logging, tracing and monitoring cross all MicroStrategy products, and designed the first company-wide logging standard, leading a team of architects and working with all stakeholders. Designed logging infrastructure using Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Logstash/Beats. Formed development plan and initiated the development.

Responsible for tech roadmap, architecture, engineering, for all MicroStrategy analytics tools products.Built tech roadmap and vision to build a unified analytics tools platform for modeling, data discovery, design, and administration, on a common architecture.Designed and promoted development processes for high quality and engineering excellence. Formulated service-oriented platform architecture and roadmap, for micro service transformation and development of the analytics platform, collaborated with Product management. Initiated and organized regular Architecture Council meetings across technology divisions for cross-technology technical matters. Worked with CTO and VP Product Management on top analytics product directions. Drove products conception, architecture and development, including: • Pioneered and architected Workstation, MicroStrategy’s next generation analytics tool (data discovery, modeling, app design, admin with a unified architecture). Designed the architecture to support standalone, offline, and online analytics, using MVC user interface pattern and powered by backend infrastructure. Formulated development strategies and guided development teams. Now in release as MicroStrategy 2019 Workstation and Desktop.• Initiated, architected, kicked off the development of unified RESTful API, MicroStrategy’s next generation API SDK and API Gateway. Initiated and led efforts working with architects across divisions to create the first company-wide REST API standard.• Designed object model for Dossier, the patent-pending analytics application product, to enable key product capabilities with a strong object model. • Conceived and defined real time analytics / visualization product (developed prototype using JavaScript, node.js and Kafka). Drove re-architecting of Visualization (with 10x to 100x speedup). Designed strategy and paths to transform legacy web codebase to React-based

Responsible for a new cloud-native SaaS analytics product, leading engineering, roadmap, vision, architecture, and innovation. Initiated and led development of an internal startup (“Sirius”) to re-imagine and create a new SaaS cloud-native analytics product based on newly invented application (“Dossier”), as engineering and product leader. Formulated product vision and roadmap with executive team. Designed the cloud-native SaaS architecture, and pioneered the patented Dossier application.Led engineering and innovation efforts. Led cross-functional teams of software engineers, tech product managers, quality engineers, engineering managers, and architecture team. Led teams' agile transformation. Led agile innovation and research to bring in open source and cloud technologies (angular.js / node.js, AWS microservices, RedShift, Kafka, Spark, MongoDB, S3, etc), achieving many firsts for the company

Responsible for big data analytics product and solution (MPP PRIME), and business intelligence/analytics server (MicroStrategy Intelligence Server)Designed architecture and led development for MPP PRIME, MicroStrategy's massively parallel big data in-memory analytics technology. Led global cross-functional global teams to develop MPP PRIME for big customers like Facebook and PayPal, from inception to full development. Formulated big data in memory analytics product vision, and presented architecture to help sales meetings.Led development and delivery for Facebook a 220-node MPP PRIME system, the first and largest out of the box such solution in the industry, deriving instant insights from 1.6 billion Facebook users to empower Facebook sales organization. Led global teams (Virginia, Beijing, California), managed site visits and production deployment in Facebook’s private cloud. Led MicroStrategy enterprise analytics development for Analytics Server, Mobile, Cloud Express. Also led development infrastructure team and rapid response engineering team for customer escalations.

Led development of business intelligence analytics products: • Led development of Distribution Service, the scalable analytics content personalization, alerting and delivery platform, from inception to full development, achieving large-scale delivery for customers such as PayPal, eBay, USPS. Designed the architecture and key features (alerting, bursting, dynamic groups, personal view, etc).• Pioneered in bringing push notification technology to Mobile analytics, making MicroStrategy the first in industry to support zero-click always-fresh analytics data on mobile devices. Led development of the patented technology from inception to full product.• Led development of Mobile Content Management, creating and formulating key content products such as data-driven refreshing, secure content update, multimedia widgets, online/offline content. Architected a server-mobile collaborative architecture (a "Backend for frontend" design)

Invented and led the development of the patented high scalability enterprise analytics solution, maintaining MicroStrategy’s position as the most scalable analytics vendor.Responsible for analytics System Architecture. Improved the overall server reliability, performance and scalability. Conducted a 5-city recruiting trip in China, starting a global R&D center that grows to 500+.

Ported the Windows-based MicroStrategy Server to 64-bit Unix/Linux as Unix Engineering lead, offering the first 64-bit analytics server in the industry (MicroStrategy Universal product) that opened up big new markets for the company. Responsible for server stability and reliability as Stability Engineering lead. Improved Server stability and performance. Resolved tough customer and in-house escalations.

Invented, designed and implemented patented MicroStrategy server clustering technology, making MicroStrategy the most scalable in analytics software space, achieving load balancing, fail-over, resource sharing, high-performance, and high scalability. Architected and developed the highly-extendable server command execution platform. Resolved the most sophisticated problems on customer site such as Lowe’s, turning unhappy customers to loyal references.

Worked on designing architecture for the MicroStrategy 7 business intelligence platform. Researched, coordinated and worked on designing the next generation analytics architecture, during early product inception and planning stage, working with Chief Technical Architect.