Dapeng Liu

I am a Cloud Infrastructure Executive and Engineering Director with 15+ years of experience leading hyperscale distributed platforms and global technical governance at Google and Alibaba Cloud. My career is anchored by 4 consecutive Google Feats of Engineering Awards for modernizing global control planes, and my structural infrastructure innovations have been validated by peer-reviewed selection at OSDI%2726.

What makes me an exceptional Independent Director or Advisor is my ability to sit at the critical intersection of deep technical risk oversight, capital allocation (CapEx) efficiency, and geopolitical data sovereignty. Having overseen multi-hundred-million-dollar internal budgets, designed matrixed organizations through subordinate layers of managers, and built localized US-region Sovereign Cloud SRE structures from scratch, I protect investor capital by ensuring that infrastructure is highly utilized, immune to cascading operational failure, and legally compliant across cross-border jurisdictions.

The companies that will benefit most from my expertise fall into three distinct categories:
1. Digital Infrastructure & Edge Operators (like nLighten or EXA) that are deployed in heavy CapEx expansion phases to support distributed AI workloads and sovereign cloud requirements. I help their boards audit architectural spending, ensure fleet asset utilization, and evaluate international M&A technology diligence.
2. High-Growth, Pre-IPO B2B SaaS (like Collibra or similar scale) experiencing intense platform scaling pains or transitioning to multi-cloud environments. I advise their leadership on technical risk mitigation, platform productization, and stabilizing developer velocity before going public.
3. Cross-Border Global Enterprises facing strict regional data-residency audits (such as EU GDPR or US federal compliance). I act as a strategic advisor to their Technology Committees, providing the blueprint for localized control plane architectures and automated risk-governance frameworks.