Bin Fan

Bin Fan, VP Open Source and Founding Engineer, Alluxio

Bin Fan is the PMC maintainer of Alluxio open source. Prior to joining Alluxio as a founding engineer, he worked for Google to build the next-generation storage infrastructure. Bin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University on the design and implementation of distributed systems.

About Alluxio

Proven at 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 data analytics 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 eight out of the top 10 internet companies. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Seven Seas Partners, Volcanics Ventures, and Hillhouse Capital, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. For more information, contact info[at]alluxio.com.

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