Xiaodan Zhuang

CEO

Sunnyvale, California, United States18 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of GreptimeDB with 5.6K+ GitHub stars.
20 years of experience in databases and distributed systems.
Led teams processing trillions of events daily.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused SaaS architect with extensive experience in observability and database systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Database DevelopmentRust (programming Language)Cloud ComputingSystem Monitoring

Other Skills

Venture CapitalIntegrated MarketingEngineeringSalesMarketingFinancial PlanningManagementFundingGreptimeDB OSSGreptimeDB EnterpriseJavaLinuxMySQLSoftware DevelopmentJavaScript

About

Founder and CEO of Greptime, building GreptimeDB—an open-source unified database for cloud-native observability and IoT. I've spent 20 years building databases and distributed systems at scale. Created multiple successful open-source projects widely adopted across the industry. Led teams of dozens building ultra-large-scale monitoring infrastructure that processed trillions of events daily. At Ant Group and Taobao, I solved infrastructure challenges for one of the world's largest e-commerce and fintech platforms. At LeanCloud, I built cloud-native backend systems serving millions of users. These experiences showed me how fragmented observability stacks—Prometheus + Loki + ClickHouse—create unnecessary complexity and massive costs at scale. That's why we built GreptimeDB: one database for metrics, logs, and traces. Written in Rust for performance and reliability. Query with SQL or PromQL. Deploy anywhere from edge to cloud. We're Apache 2.0 licensed with 5.6K+ GitHub stars. Fortune 500 companies run GreptimeDB in production, processing billions of data points daily. I believe the best infrastructure is built in the open with community collaboration. Outside of databases, I’m interested in car tuning and track racing. GitHub: github.com/killme2008 Twitter: https://x.com/killme20082

Experience

18 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Greptime inc.

Chief Executive Officer

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid

The Single Database for Big Observability
The real-time, cloud-native observability database for metrics, logs, and traces, providing sub-second insights from edge to cloud—at any scale.
https://greptime.com/

Database DevelopmentRust (Programming Language)Venture CapitalIntegrated MarketingEngineeringSales+2

Ant group

2 roles

Senior Staff Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

Lead the intelligent monitoring team. Focus on large-scale monitoring systems and TSDB development.

System MonitoringDatabase DevelopmentRust (Programming Language)

Staff Engineer

Sep 2017 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · On-site

Staff Engineer in middleware team, focusing on distributed messaging queue, distributed computation framework, and time series database development.

System MonitoringRust (Programming Language)

Leancloud

Technical Lead

Feb 2014 – Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Changzhou-Wuxi-Suzhou Metropolitan Area · On-site

AVOS China office was turned into Leancloud in 2014.
I am as backend systems technical lead in leancloud and develop large scale mobile backend service systems(BaaS).

Avos systems inc.

Senior Engineer

Feb 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · beijing

Works on delicious.com, mei.fm, wanpaiapp.com, and avoscloud(now LeanCloud.cn) backend systems.
Develop backend systems such as web applications, text extraction, and mobile backend services.

Taobao marketplace

Senior Engineer

Apr 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hangzhou-Shaoxing Metropolitan Area · On-site

Works in Java middleware team, developing distributed systems, such as messaging queue(notify, MetaQ), RPC framework based on Java NIO, service discovery( diamond), etc.