Ying Xiong is chief architect of the cloud platform at Huawei Technologies, where his current responsibilities include the architecture vision, strategy, and design of the cloud platform as a service (PaaS). Ying brings 20+ years of experience in architecture and design of cloud, ecommerce, and enterprise IT systems. Previously, Ying was a principal architect and development manager for Microsoft’s Azure and SQL Azure cloud platforms and a principal enterprise technical architect and development manager at AT&T. He holds a PhD and a BS in computer science.