Building Microservice Platforms with TARS

Bart Dong

Senior Engineer

Tencent

Bart is a Senior Engineer at Tencent. He has over nine years of experience in large-scale Internet application, operation, and maintenance. He is responsible for the application market, mobile security, operation planning, resources, budget, etc.

He is currently responsible for the TARS open source technology and its community as Director of TARS Foundation. He is committed to the TARS Foundation, focusing on microservices and empowering industries to quickly turn ideas into applications at scale.

Defool Li

TarsGo Core Developer and Technical Evangelist

TARS Foundation

Defool Li is a TarsGo core developer and technical evangelist specializing in TARS and open source service governance. He is responsible for the backend development of multiple cloud computing products related to Docker and cloud development.

Hin Yang

Director

Linux Foundation Open Source Software University

Hin Yang is a Director of Linux Foundation Open Source Software University and a leading practitioner in the software industry for more than 20 years. He held various senior positions in successful enterprise software companies such as Saba, SumTotal, Computer Associates. He has deep experience in both the enterprise application business and developer sides of planning and implementing world-class cloud native solutions for large organizations. He also has extensive experience in “what works” in the world of open source and digital transformation for the APAC market.

Jarod Ruan

CTO

Upchina

Jarod Ruan is the CTO of Upchina. With many years of backend distributed development experience, Jarod is the TARS core maintainer.

Joey Zhong

Tech Lead

Tencent

Joey Zhong is a Tech Lead at Tencent. He has years of working experience in the Internet industry, specializing in fields such as microservices architecture, cloud computing, and distributed NoSQL database.

Kahn Chen

Senior Backend Engineer

Tencent

Kahn Chen is a Senior Backend Engineer at Tencent. He specializes in the research and development of distributed microservice framework, big data framework, message-oriented middleware and real-time data processing framework.

Katharine Wong

Engineer

Tencent

Katharine is currently an Engineer at Tencent. She is responsible for open source software and open source ecosystem operation. As an ambassador of the TARS project and TARS Foundation, she contributes to the community and works on training and certification. She earned her Master’s degree in Information Technology from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and explored Ethereal nodes and transactions. Katharine has extensive expertise around microservices and containers, DevOps, security, blockchain, and more.

Magdalena Stepien

Instructional Designer

The Linux Foundation

Magdalena is an Instructional Design Manager at The Linux Foundation. In her role, she is responsible for updating and expanding the Foundation’s e-learning course catalogue. She specializes in training, online course development and adult education. She holds a Master's Degree in Human Resource Development and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, both from Northeastern Illinois University. She also earned Associate Professional in Talent Development and Certified Professional in Training Management certifications.

Mark Shan

Chair

TARS Foundation Governing Board

Mark Shan serves as the chair of the TARS Foundation Governing Board under the Linux Foundation. He is also a TSC at the Linux Foundation Akraino Edge Stack and a Fellow at China Cloud Native Industry Alliance.

Peiying Huang

Project Manager

TARS Foundation

Peiying currently works for the TARS Foundation, creating marketing content and strategies to increase the organization’s social media presence and to encourage public knowledge of open source. Her contributions to the TARS project include translating and improving technical documentations. The skills she gained through her B.A. in Economics and Environmental Science from Boston University lend themselves to IT with a special focus on open source technology and community engagement.

Sking Fan

Vice President

Huya

Sking Fan is a VP at Huya. Right after graduation from university, Sking joined Tencent and worked in the research and development of TARS and QQ browser. Currently, he works at Huya and promotes TARS landing in Huya.

Super Zheng

Expert Engineer

Tencent

Super Zheng is an Expert Engineer at Tencent. He has built a large-scale Node.js runtime environment in Tencent and led the research and development of the integrated development framework for the front terminal. He has in-depth expertise in performance optimization and front-end engines. He is also committed to the training of full-stack development talents.

Suzi Liu

Tech Lead

Tencent

Suzi Liu is a Tech Lead at Tencent. With years of work experience in Internet background development, Suzi specializes in RPC, microservices, cloud native, and other technical fields.

Ted Liang

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Ted Liang is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. He is the lead of the TARSPHP open source project. He previously worked at Tencent and was responsible for the backstage development of corporate QQ and QQ official accounts. Ted is a member of the TSF development team of Tencent's open source projects and has extensive experience in building high-performance WEB backends and microservice governance. He currently serves as a backend technical manager at Microsoft Enterprise Search.

Timmy Yu

Technical Expert

China Literature

Timmy Yu is a Technical Expert at China Literature. He is a backend development expert focusing on the technical design of China Literature Group's user center service and that of TarsJava. In China Literature, he led the applications of TARS microservices in overseas projects and red sleeve emerging projects, which illustrates the stability of TARS architecture in business scenarios with high traffic and rapid changes. He is a contributor to Tencent's open source TARS project, with in-depth practical experience in handling RPC and K8S microservices.