Will Wang

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Singapore, Singapore15 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in data and AI solutions.
Expert in leading cross-functional engineering teams.
Certified across major cloud platforms and Hadoop ecosystems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI solutions architect with extensive experience in enterprise-level data transformation.

Contact

will.wang@databricks.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Enterprise ArchitectureData Ai

Other Skills

Sales Target ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipExecutive Presentation SkillsSolution SellingTeam ManagementDeep LearningBig DataMachine LearningData MiningAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingAgile MethodologiesProject Management

About

Will is the Solution Architect Manager for Global-to-China and China-to-Global business at Databricks, within the ASEAN GCR team. With over 15 years of experience spanning large-scale machine learning, software engineering, and field solution architecture, he helps digital natives and enterprises tackle their toughest data and AI challenges. A former ML engineer turned Solutions Architect and now Field Engineering Leader, Will brings deep technical expertise and business acumen to guide clients across industries—from telecom and banking to online advertising and energy. He is certified across major cloud platforms (Databricks, Azure, AWS, GCP) and Hadoop ecosystems (HDP/CDH), and is passionate about turning complex problems into scalable, impactful solutions with data and AI.

Experience

15 yrs

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

5 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Databricks

5 roles

Head of Field Engineering, GCR

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Lead the China Field Engineering team to drive Databricks’ China-to-Global (C2G) and Global-to-China (G2C) business across Enterprise, Digital Native & High-Growth, and Multinational segments.
Build and mentor a high-performing team of Solution Architects, enhancing customer engagement and trust.
Collaborate with Sales and cross-functional teams to define and execute go-to-market strategies for Greater China.
Champion the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, facilitating data transformation and AI innovation for organizations.

Sales Target ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipExecutive Presentation SkillsEnterprise ArchitectureSolution SellingTeam Management+1

Senior Solution Architect

Aug 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Senior Specialist Solution Architect, DS/ML

Feb 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

Senior Resident Solution Architect

Promoted

Dec 2021 – Feb 2022 · 2 mos

Resident Solution Architect

Oct 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

Guided strategic customers in designing and implementing big data and machine learning projects, enhancing their business transformation.
Developed proofs of concept and prototypes, collaborating closely with customer teams through pair programming.
Architected and validated the migration of workloads to Apache Spark, ensuring seamless transitions from third-party platforms.
Actively evangelized Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, and MLflow at meetups and conferences, fostering community engagement.

Cloudera

Solution Architect, DS/ML

Feb 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Melbourne, Australia

Collaborated with customers and partners to optimize their plans for deploying Machine Learning and Big Data environments.
Designed and implemented ML/AI solutions tailored to specific business challenges, ensuring best practices for model training and deployment.
Developed and ran ML workloads using frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch, enhancing the efficiency of deep learning processes.

Tencent

Machine Learning Engineer Team Lead

Mar 2011 – Feb 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Beijing, China

Spearheaded the development of a distributed machine learning model training system, enhancing CTR predictions for online advertisements.
Drove online ads revenue growth from $0 to $6M per day through innovative machine learning solutions.
Designed a comprehensive monitoring tool for the machine learning platform, tracking multi-dimensional metrics.