Meet the Top Operations Experts of 2016: Profiles and Must‑Read Articles

Liang Ding'an

Tencent SNG operations leader with ten years of experience in large‑scale operations development, architecture planning, and automation, focusing on DevOps, APM, and big‑data operational practices.

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Sun Yucong

Google SRE and translator of "SRE: Google Site Reliability Engineering"; former Google Cloud team SRE for eight years, working on YouTube and GCP, now promotes containerized delivery and infrastructure service transformation in China.

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Zhao Shundong

Founder of UnixHot operations community; former commander‑level automation architect for a Chinese military unit, later leading e‑commerce operations and author of "SaltStack: Introduction and Practice".

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Pang Junying

Founder/CEO of Dahe Yunlian (DAHO), with nearly two decades in network planning, operations, and R&D former Cisco and China Telecom engineer, early CCIE‑certified female engineer, ex‑Alibaba chief network architect and pioneer of large‑scale SDN data‑center projects.

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Peng Xiaoliu

IT department head at Jiangsu Aike Semiconductor, former programmer, self‑described "IT old virgin", product enthusiast, and avid reader.

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Yan Rui

Engineer, open‑source advocate, and avid deep‑reading enthusiast; currently at Zhongying Youchuang, focusing on high‑availability architecture improvement and DevOps team building.

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Zhang Kaitao

JD Group technology R&D, joined in 2014, developed JD product detail pages and high‑traffic systems, author of multiple tutorial series on Spring, Shiro, Nginx+Lua, etc.

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Liu Tiansi

13 years in internet operations, currently at Tencent Interactive Entertainment, handling game big‑data operations; former chief architect at Tianya Community, author of books on Python automation and Docker best practices, with multiple open‑source projects and patents.

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Wang Ziyong

Tencent SNG senior business operations engineer with eight years of R&D and operations experience, open‑source enthusiast, contributor to projects such as rsyslog.

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Gu Jiong

Expert committee member of China Telecom Zhejiang Cloud Computing Lab and SDx Joint Technology Open Lab; first‑author of multiple projects that have won provincial and corporate technology progress awards.

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Wang Hua

Tencent SNG senior engineer responsible for multimedia value‑added services operations and automation platform construction.

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Zou Liwei

Linux system technology expert currently in Tencent SNG's private cloud platform team, previously Sina dynamic application platform architect responsible for Weibo and Sina Blog private cloud design and operations.

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