Sheng Liang is the CEO and Co-Founder of
Rancher Labs
Rancher Labs is an open source software company based in Cupertino, California. The company helps manage Kubernetes at scale. Rancher Labs was founded in 2014 and has 30,000 active teams.
Rancher Labs was funded with $10 million in 2015, $20 mi ...
.
Previously he was the lead developer on the original
Java virtual machine
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(JVM) team at
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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, and the
chief technology officer of the Cloud Platforms groups at
Citrix Systems
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after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he was co-founder and
chief executive officer
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and founder of
Cloud.com in July 2011.
Biography
Liang has a PhD from Yale University in Computer Science. He did his undergraduate degree from
University of Science and Technology of China
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.
Sheng also was co-founder and chief technology officer of Teros, a provider of perimeter and network security solutions for enterprises and service providers, acquired by
Citrix Systems, Inc. in 2005. He also served as vice president of engineering at
SEVEN Networks
SEVEN Networks, Inc. is a privately funded American corporation founded in 2000. It had about 265 employees in 2010. As of 2017, the company has research and development centers in Texas and Finland.
SEVEN mobile messaging products are turnkey ...
, and as director of software engineering at
Openwave Systems.
References
External links
DevX - Open Source Solutions for Managing Private and Public CloudsESJ - Q&A: Building a Private CloudJava.net - Launch Java Applications From Assembly Language ProgramsThe Register - Cloud.com takes on virty infrastructure
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Yale University alumni
Living people
American people of Chinese descent
American technology chief executives
American chief technology officers
Year of birth missing (living people)