Zhuo Zhang

VP, AI & Cloud Solutions @ ThinkForce

About

Over 20 years of experience across IBM, Alibaba Cloud, and leading AI startups, driving full-lifecycle ownership of core products, solutions, and services. Proven track record in R&D, cloud and AI solution design, large-scale delivery, and key customer engagement. Known for building and leading high-performing teams, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and innovation across the evolving IT landscape.

Country

China

City

Beijing

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Technical Service Delivery, Cloud Computing IaaS, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Business Development, Cloud-Native Architecture, Business Strategy, Customer Engagement, AI Solutions, Strategic Planning, Enterprise Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, Java, Algorithms, C++, SQL, Data Mining, Databases, Java Enterprise Edition

Experience

VP, AI & Cloud Solutions

ThinkForce

2023-6 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Beijing, China

Leading enterprise AI infrastructure and solution delivery for telecom, internet, and large enterprise customers across general computing, AI inference, and intelligent computing scenarios. Built and led the company’s FAE organization as the frontline technical force for major projects, covering the full lifecycle from PoC and deployment to production operations and ongoing support. Focused on turning complex AI infrastructure into scalable, production-ready systems with real customer and business impact.

Vice President of Technical Services

Alibaba Cloud

2020-6 - 2023-5 · 3 yrs

中国北京市

Led the transformation of Alibaba Cloud’s enterprise services—from tiered strategy and expert solution design to SRE-driven delivery, AI-powered platform integration, and productization of expert services. Unified product, engineering, and delivery into a full-stack operating model, enabling modular offerings that supported complex customer journeys from cloud migration to production-grade AI infrastructure. The expert team I built became a key engine for enterprise adoption and revenue growth.

Manage Director

Accenture

2019-11 - 2020-6 · 8 mos

Beijing, China

AI Solution landing for China market, including Artificial Intelligence Client Experience, Applied Intelligent Platform, etc.

Solutions Director

YITUTech

2016-11 - 2019-11 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Shanghai City, China

Solution Director of YITU product portfolio. responsible for the next generation AI enabled products's strategy planning, product full lifecycle management, core architecture design, key customer engagement; formalized the product team for the product full lifecycle: product design, development, release, engagement and solution design support.

Director of Software Engineering

Alibaba Cloud

2015-6 - 2016-11 · 1 yr 6 mos

Beijing City, China;

Director of Alibaba Cloud Elastic Computing Services family, including Elastic Computing Service (ECS), High Performance Computing(HPC) Service, Container Service(CS), Resource Orchestration Service(ROS), etc. Manager of infrastructure and application life-cycle management products on Aliyun, including Resource Orchestration Service(ROS), Container Service, API gateway.

Senior Staff Manager

Alibaba Cloud

2010-10 - 2015-6 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Beijing

Core development team manager, focus on the cloud computing platform(Apsara)'s design/implementation/support, mainly works on Resource management and job scheduling system(Fuxi); Apsara Release Manager; Project manager of Apsara 5K project @2013; Co-author of VLDB2014 full paper in industrial track: "Fuxi: Fault Tolerant Resource Management and Job Scheduling System at Internet Scale";

Advisory Software Engineer/Manager

IBM

2004-4 - 2010-10 · 6 yrs 7 mos

2004.4-2005.1 China Research Lab, focused on knowledge modeling, semantic web and knowledge representation 2005.2-2010.9 China Development Lab, focused on InformationManagement Product portfolio Design& Implementation, including DB2 performance monitor/optimization & related products design/implementation/customer engagement