Jeff Tao

Jeff Tao has a strong background in technology and entrepreneurship. Jeff is currently the CEO and Founder of TDengine, an open-source time-series database optimized for IoT, Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT. TDengine has gained popularity, with over 21k stars on GitHub, over 250k running instances in over 50 countries, and over 150 paid customers.

Prior to TDengine, Jeff was the CEO and Founder of iCare Newlife Technologies, a mobile health start-up that focused on prenatal care services. The company was acquired by Pacific Network in 2015.

Before iCare Newlife Technologies, Jeff founded and served as CEO of Hesine Technologies, a mobile data application service company. They developed various products like mobile unified messaging service, color call, push mail, and push blog.

Jeff has also worked as a Principal Staff Engineer at Motorola Mobile Devices, a Principal Engineer at Watercove Networks, a Senior Engineer at 3Com, and a Software Engineer at Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company).

Jeff Tao earned a Master's degree in Astrophysics from Indiana University Bloomington in 1994-1995. In 1996-1997, they pursued another Master's degree in Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Prior to this, Jeff obtained a Bachelor's degree in Astrophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China. No specific start or end years were provided for their Bachelor's degree.