Guanlan Dai
About Guanlan Dai
Guanlan Dai serves as the Site Lead for China at Kong Inc. and has held various engineering roles in the tech industry, including Director of Engineering and Technical Lead at Cloudflare.
Work at Kong
Guanlan Dai has been with Kong Inc. since 2018, initially serving as Senior Engineering Manager until 2021, when he transitioned to the role of Director of Engineering. In his current position as Site Lead for China, he oversees engineering operations and strategic initiatives. Under his leadership, Kong has developed significant products, including Kong Cloud, Kong Brain, and Kong Immunity. Dai has also led the development of Kong's open-source API Gateway, which has received over 30,000 stars on GitHub, indicating a strong community interest and adoption.
Previous Experience at Cloudflare
Before joining Kong, Guanlan Dai worked at Cloudflare, Inc. from 2013 to 2017. He began as a Systems Engineer for a brief period before advancing to Technical Lead, where he led the Edge Platform team. His work focused on optimizing high-performance SaaS infrastructures, including Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Web Application Firewalls (WAF), and caching solutions. During his tenure, he contributed to handling over 10 trillion requests per month, which represented nearly 10 percent of all Internet requests.
Education and Expertise
Guanlan Dai holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Guilin University of Electronic Technology. He furthered his education with a Master's degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Additionally, he studied Entrepreneurship at Tsinghua University, equipping him with a diverse skill set that combines technical expertise with entrepreneurial insight.
Contributions to OpenResty Project
Guanlan Dai has made significant contributions to the OpenResty project, which is a dynamic web platform built on NGINX and LuaJIT. His involvement in this project highlights his expertise in web technologies and his commitment to enhancing open-source solutions within the tech community.