Tao Wang

Experienced Head of Engineering. 0) Extensive leadership experience building world-class product and engineering team at a few fast growing SaaS startups: AppDynamics(APM, acquired for $3.7B), Amplitude(Business Analytics, Data Ingestion, Query Engine, IPOed), Trace Data(Security, API, acquired) and Netskope(Security, preIPO, valued $7.5B+). Drive vision, roadmap, culture and OKRs. 1) Some highlights: Senior Director of Engineering at Amplitude during series C and D, grew team 3 times in 1.5 years, led > 50% of all engineering teams, improved uptime to 99.99%, delivered query engine v2, which is 5 times faster. VP of Engineering at Trace Data, built the engineering team and product from scratch at seed stage, acquired by Netskope. Director of Engineering at Netskope, tripled the team in a year. 2) 17 years of experience on software engineering at both startups(seed, series C, D, E, F) and big tech: AWS, Microsoft. Track of record of solving critical tech/team problems and deliver key projects on time with high quality. Strong background in backend, database, scalability, services, API, distributed system. Cloud experienced of AWS, GCP and K8s. 3) Extensive experience to deliver highly scalable backend services and ship customer loved product, working with product and UX.