Chang Lan is an experienced software engineer and research scientist, having held positions at prominent technology companies such as Google, ByteDance, and Nefeli, which was acquired by Cloudflare. Chang also interned at Facebook and Microsoft Research Asia. Educational qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, completed in 2018, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, obtained in 2013.