Dr. Ying Xiong is Chief Architect for Base Platform Service at HUAWEI Technologies. His current responsibilities include the vision, strategy, architecture and design of cloud platform as-a-service (PaaS). Ying brings 20+ years of experience in architecture and design of cloud, ecommerce and enterprise IT systems.  

Prior to HUAWEI, Ying worked about 8 years at Microsoft as principal architect and development manager in Azure/SQL Azure cloud platforms. He also spent over 10 years at AT&T/Cingular wireless and BellSouth telecommunication as principal enterprise architect, ecommerce architect and development manager. He received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and System Science from Med. University of South Carolina, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Sichuan University.