- KubeCon North America 2025: Red Hat AI Model Serving Highlights
- KServe Joins CNCF as an Incubating Project | Red Hat Blog
- Why vLLM is the best choice for AI inference today | Red Hat Developer
- Introducing vLLM Inference Provider in Llama Stack | vLLM Blog
- AI/ML Innovation in the Kubernetes Ecosystem | DZone
- KServe Providers Dish Up NIMble Inference in Clouds and Data Centers | NVIDIA Blog
- Empower conversational AI at scale with KServe | Red Hat Developer
- Open source AI at Red Hat: Our journey in the Kubeflow community | Red Hat Blog

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Alibaba Group (June 2018 - Aug 2021)
- Built AI infrastructure and AutoML platform on Kubernetes; served as co-chair of Kubeflow and led the development of distributed training operators.
- Designed and implemented major components of ElasticDL to support fault-tolerance and elastic scheduling for deep learning workloads; co-inventor of the patent for the underlying system and method for distributed task execution; integrated with SQLFlow to enable machine learning with extended SQL.
- Led the design and development of Couler and Argo Workflows to provide scalable cloud-native workflow orchestration for data science teams.

Senior AI Platform Engineer at H2O.ai (Dec 2017 - May 2018)
- Contributed to the open source machine learning platform H2O.
- Built the model management component of Driverless AI that automates the end-to-end data science workflows.

Data Science Lead at Uptake (Sep 2015 - Nov 2017)
- Led a team that built a scalable data science platform to monitor the condition of industry assets such as trains, airplanes, and wind turbines, reducing machine failures and downtime.
- Built intelligent monitoring platform from the ground up to automatically monitor internal microservices in real-time at scale; lead inventor of the patent for the underlying anomaly detection algorithm.
- Led all open source initiatives within the data science team.

This is a Technical Advisory Group under the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) with a focus on Workloads Foundation.

Mission: define and advance practices and standards for fundamental cloud native workload execution environments and their related lifecycle management within cloud native systems, applications, and architectures. This supports the CNCF's technical vision by addressing critical problems faced by adopters and contributing to a robust cloud native ecosystem.

Define a standardized set of capabilities, APIs, and configurations that a Kubernetes cluster must offer to reliably and efficiently run AI/ML workloads.

CNCF leadership has announced and invited me to speak on the day 1 opening keynote stage at KubeCon North America 2025 with Red Hat logo and my quote to recognize my leadership in this effort. I worked with the Red Hat engineering and product teams to get our initial certification for Kubernetes AI Conformance, among the first certified vendors.

Other media and vendor coverage: Forbes, CloudNativeNow, AKS, and GKE.

Serving as a primary voting member of the Technical Advisory Council for the LF AI & Data Foundation, representing Red Hat.

- KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project (CNCF Blog and Red Hat Blog)
- Announcing KServe v0.15: Advancing Generative AI Model Serving
- From Serverless Predictive Inference to Generative Inference - Introducing KServe v0.13

Focuses on the novel challenges of compute-intensive online inference.
- WG Serving Has Succeeded and Will Be Disbanded
- Navigating the Rapid Evolution of Large Model Inference: Where does Kubernetes Fit? - KubeCon North America 2025
- Advancements in AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes From WG Serving and Ecosystem Projects - KubeCon Europe 2025
- Kubernetes Working Group Serving - Kubernetes Podcast from Google
- WG Serving: Accelerating AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes - KubeCon North America 2024

- Project Lead of Argo Workflows, the container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes.
- Maintainer of Argo CD, a declarative and GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.

Blogs:
- Yuan Tang – From Argo to Mentoring and everything in between | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- What's new in Argo Workflows v3.5
- Argo Security Automation with OSS-Fuzz
- Unveil the Secret Ingredients of Continuous Delivery at Enterprise Scale with Argo CD
- ArgoCon 2021 Akuity Team Recap

Member of The Kubeflow Steering Committee (KSC), which is the governing body of the Kubeflow project, providing decision-making and oversight pertaining to the Kubeflow project policies, sub-organizations, and financial planning, and defines the project values and structure.
- Kubeflow Project Steering Committee Announced

Co-chair of Distributed Training Working Group and maintainer of various Kubernetes operators for machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, and XGBoost.
- PyTorch on Kubernetes: Kubeflow Trainer Joins the PyTorch Ecosystem
- Introduction to Kubeflow MPI Operator and Industry Adoption

- Program Chair of Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day (Europe, North America, China), 2024 - 2026 [announcement]
- Program Committee Member of KubeCon AI/ML Track (Europe, North America, China, Japan, India), 2024 - 2026
- Program Committee Member of Agentics Day at KubeCon Europe, 2026
- Program Chair of Data on Kubernetes Day at KubeCon North America, 2023

- Kubeflow, 2024 [project] [certificate]
- Argo, 2022 [project]
- Kubeflow, 2020 [project] [certificate]
- TensorFlow, 2019 [project] [certificate]
- R Project for Statistical Computing, 2016 [project] [certificate]

- Metabit Trading, Technical Advisor, cloud-native infrastructure for quantitative trading
- Chaintool (now part of Codatta), Technical Advisor, distributed graph database system for risk management on Web3 [project]
- TensorChord, Technical Advisor, container-based reproducible development environment for AI/ML [project]
- Moises (now part of Music.AI), Technical Advisor, AI-powered music and audio platform
- Maven Wave (now Eviden, part of Atos), Executive Advisor, machine learning, data visualization, and open source strategy [project]
- CSPA (acquired by AngelList), Technical Steering and Open Source Strategy

Multiple Awards to DataNovo Startup Team (2015 - 2016)
- Top 3 Finalist by SXSW Interactive, 2016
- Top Startup Winner by TiE50, 2016
- Trial Support Software Innovation Award by Legaltech News, The Recorder, 2016
- B2B Finalist by Launch Festival, 2015

Best Virtual Reality Hack at HackRPI (2014)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [announcement] [project]

Multiple Awards by Schreyer Honors College at Penn State (2014)
- Pre-Eminence in Honors Education Fund ($5,000)
- Summer Research Grants ($1,200)
- NSF MCTP Grant and PMASS Fellowship ($12,800)
- John K. Tsui Honors Scholarship ($5,300)