Haoyuan Li

Haoyuan Li, Founder and CEO, Alluxio

Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Alluxio. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley AMPLab, in Computer Science. At the AMPLab, he created Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) Open Source Data Orchestration System, co-created Apache Spark Streaming, and became an Apache Spark founding committer. Before UC Berkeley, he got a M.S. from Cornell University and a B.S. from Peking University, all in Computer Science.

About Alluxio

Proven as a global web-scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open-source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds, and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects.  Intelligent data tiering and data management deliver consistently high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail, and telecommunications. Alluxio is in production use today at seven out of the top ten internet companies. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Seven Seas Partners, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project.

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