Howard Wang

Howard Wang is the current CTO at Lazada. Prior to their current position, they held various engineering management positions at Alibaba Group, Twitter, and Yahoo!.

Howard Wang has over fifteen years of experience in the tech industry. Howard started their career at Yahoo! in 2005 as a senior engineering manager. At Yahoo!, they led several teams responsible for search request serving and optimization, handling tens of billions of Advertising revenue. In addition, they also led the content recommendation team that provided relevant content to users on various Yahoo media properties.

In October 2013, they left Yahoo! to join Twitter as a senior engineering manager. At Twitter, they led the Trends&Discovery team that was responsible for trending topic detection and recommendation. Howard left Twitter in February 2015 to join Alibaba Group.

At Alibaba Group, Howard Wang held various engineering management positions before being promoted to CTO in 2019. As CTO, they are responsible for the technology and product development of the company. Under their leadership, Lazada has become one of the leading e-commerce platforms in Southeast Asia.

Howard Wang has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Howard Wang reports to James Dong, Group CEO. They are on a team with Lillian Jiang - Chief People Officer, Vanessa Seow - Head of Communications, and Yann Fontaine - COO, Thailand.