Yunong Xiao

Yunong Xiao is an experienced engineering leader currently serving as Director of Engineering for Google Cloud AI/ML Serverless, a position held since July 2023. Prior to this role, Yunong held multiple leadership positions at Stripe from February 2021 to June 2023, including Head of Engineering for Distributed Systems and Head of Engineering for Canada, where responsibilities included establishing Stripe's Toronto office and overseeing critical online data infrastructure. Yunong's career also includes significant contributions as General Manager for Serverless, PaaS, and DevOps at Tencent Cloud from 2019 to 2021, during which the division received industry recognition and experienced substantial growth. Prior engineering roles include serving as Engineering Leader at Netflix, creating architectures for scalable applications and leading the FaaS/Serverless platform, as well as Senior Software Engineer positions at Joyent and Amazon Web Services, where foundational cloud services were launched. Yunong holds an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.