Jun Xu

Jun Xu is a Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks, overseeing the compute and storage platforms that drive customer workloads and manage metadata for control plane services. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Engineering Director at Google, where Jun Xu led the development and launch of Vertex AI, significantly contributing to its growth. Additional roles at Google involved engineering leadership in web search infrastructure, while previous experience at Alibaba Group focused on search infrastructure management and product development. Jun Xu began an academic career as an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, specializing in system security and reliability. Educational qualifications include a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an MS from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Peking University.