Tanping Wang

Tanping Wang

Senior Director, AI Governance and Compliance, AI Infrastructure @ Visa

About

I am an accomplished Technology Leader with nearly 20 years of experience spanning AI/ML, Big Data, and hybrid cloud platforms. Throughout my career, I have been recognized for driving enterprise-scale innovation, building high-performing engineering teams, and delivering AI-powered solutions that balance cutting-edge technology with corporate, regulatory, and compliance requirements. Current at Visa, I lead the effort to build out AI Governance and Compliance platform to ensure our AI systems are not only powerful and scalable but also responsible, transparent, and aligned with global regulatory standards. I specialize in building automated governance workflows, observability pipelines, and AI platforms that accelerate innovation while safeguarding trust and accountability. I bring a proven ability to bridge technology, compliance, and business strategy, partnering with stakeholders to identify opportunities, define scalable architectures, and deliver secure, ethical, and revenue-driving AI systems. Passionate about advancing responsible AI, I have consistently shaped strategies that transform emerging technologies—such as Generative AI and open-source platforms—into sustainable enterprise value. My colleagues describe me as a forward-thinking and pragmatic leader who delivers exceptional outcomes, combining technical depth with strategic vision. 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 • Defined and executed Visa’s enterprise AI governance and compliance strategy, integrating GenAI into governance frameworks to drive long-term value creation. • Accelerated time-to-market for machine learning models from months to weeks through automation and scalable deployment pipelines. • Championed the development and deployment of IBM Data Engine, exponentially increasing production capacity and fueling significant annual growth. • Spearheaded the creation and launch of IBM Open Platform (IOP), directly contributing to substantial new revenue streams and market differentiation.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

ML-related Technologies & Products, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Infrastructure Technology/Services, Cloud Computing, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Big Data, Distributed Systems, ETL, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Data Warehousing, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Scalability, Storage, Shell Scripting, System Architecture, Software Design

Experience

Visa

Senior Director, AI Governance and Compliance, AI Infrastructure

Visa

LinkedIn
2021-1 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

Forster City, California, United States

𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 • Establish enterprise-wide AI governance and compliance strategy, unifying governance, observability and risk management into a single operating framework adopted across business units and regions. • Build oversight of AI observability, instituting production monitoring for model drift, bias, and performance degradation, ensuring resilient and trustworthy AI systems at scale. • Direct global regulatory alignment efforts, embedding controls to meet GDPR, CCPA, and anticipated AI Act requirements, positioning the organization as an industry leader in responsible AI. • Champion automation through GenAI and intelligent agents, building enterprise workflows that integrate fragmented compliance information into a centralized system, significantly reducing review cycles and increasing audit readiness. • Direct high-performing engineering teams, providing transformational leadership, ensuring timely delivery, and instilling a culture of innovation and accountability. 𝐌𝐋 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 • Established an enterprise-wide automated model deployment process for Visa Consulting Services, standardizing and streamlining the end-to-end ML lifecycle—from training to production—across business units and regions, reducing fragmentation and enabling faster, more reliable AI delivery at scale. • Leveraged open-source technologies to architect a fully open-source ML platform at a global scale, supporting thousands of models across regions with cost-effective, reliable infrastructure.

The Apache Software Foundation

Open Source Apache Hadoop Committer

The Apache Software Foundation

LinkedIn
2011 - Present · 15 yrs

• Collaborating on the quorum which developed Hadoop to a large-scale Open Source project from infancy. • Serving as one of the earliest contributors to Hadoop catalog manager, which evolved to become today’s Hive Metastore.

IBM

Program Director, Big Data and Cloud Service Development

IBM

LinkedIn
2014-4 - 2020-12 · 6 yrs 9 mos

San Jose

𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 2020 • Spearheaded, designed, and developed next-generation Data Lake solution for IBM Hybrid Cloud. • Liaised with the executive management team to define the overall product strategy for Data Lake enterprise, a strategic priority and key initiative for the IBM organization. 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 (𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞), 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭, 2018 𝐭𝐨 2020 • Managed development teams across multiple product lines centered around IBM Data Engine, also known as the IBM Information Server product, part of a million dollars’ business. • Maintained responsibility for the modernization and conversion of a 20-year-old legacy data engine to a container-based engine on the IBM Hybrid Cloud data platform, including defining scope, benefits strategy, and revenue outcomes. • Supervised product strategy, architectural roadmap, project management, and product releases. • Accountable for shipping three major releases each year, in addition to monthly minor releases. • Augmented performance of development team by leading and mentoring engineers and managers. 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤 (𝐈𝐎𝐏), 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭, 2014 𝐭𝐨 2018 • Administered product delivery schedules, specification reviews, planning, budgeting, and resource allocation. • Functioned as IBM representative in ODPi (www.odpi.org), an open community under the Linux Foundation, to form standardizations for an Open Source ecosystem. • Championed the development team in contributing to Open Source projects, in addition to having mentored multiple developers from IBM to become Apache Open Source committers.

Yahoo

Technical Lead, Big Data and Data Warehouse Development

Yahoo

LinkedIn
2007 - 2014 · 7 yrs

Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Guided a team of developers in both US and China in building a data platform with the ability to serve segmented audiences by feeding data into Yahoo’s advertising pipeline, which fully leveraged the entire Hadoop ecosystem. • Played a key role in establishing the data platform as the primary analytics tool used by the Yahoo CEO office to analyze high-volume live events, such as presidential campaigns, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup. • Designed HDFS Data Node storage to support Hadoop 2.0 release, a complete revamp from previous Hadoop releases. • Fulfilled the design and maintenance of the Yahoo in-house Data Warehouse solution (AWACS) before Hadoop, which managed multiple petabytes of data activity daily. • Helped lead the design and implementation of a user personalization service (UPS) within Yahoo's data advertising pipeline to provide personalized data for advertisement serving.

Microsoft

Software Engineer, IPTV

Microsoft

LinkedIn
2006-6 - 2007-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

Mountain View, California, United States

Contributed heavily to the Microsoft Mediaroom product

Interwoven

Software Engineer, Financial Service Software Development

Interwoven

LinkedIn
2005 - 2006 · 1 yr

New York City Metropolitan Area

Developed financial services software that processed non-exchange based trading operations for financial institutions on Wall Street and banks.

Intel Labs

Research Intern, Hyper-threading, Multi-core CPU Performance

Intel Labs

LinkedIn
2005-5 - 2005-8 · 4 mos

Research was focused on the methodology of streaming application that can be matched onto Intel’s dual-core and multi- core processor architecture. Developed event-driven simulations to explore the necessity of building direct hardware channel between cores on the Intel’s dual/multi-core architecture.

Education

William & Mary

William & Mary

LinkedIn

Computer Science, Parallel Computation Optimization

2002 - 2005 · 3 yrs

As part of my research work in the Ph.D. program, published adacademic conference papers on an innovative flexible parallel run-time execution model on simultaneously multithreading platform for numerical scientific applications. The run time model lies between application and OS layers. Use a programming analysis methodology to optimize the performance of the applications. Using profiling based speculative prefetching technique to maximize the best performance for scientific applications.

The George Washington University

The George Washington University

LinkedIn

Computer Science

Built a user level Distributed Shared Memory library, DSMLib, through Java Objects. The distributed shared memory (DSM) system supports the strict consistency model and sequential consistency model.

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