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Charlie Yang

CTO, OceanBase

Charlie shapes where OceanBase goes next, from long-term technical vision to product innovation. Before OceanBase, he built large-scale cloud computing systems at Baidu. In 2010 he joined as a founding engineer, driving architectural design and core kernel development from day one, and spent the next decade taking OceanBase from an internal prototype to a unified distributed database serving thousands of enterprises in production.

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