Cheng Wei

About Cheng Wei

Seasoned technology executive with 25 years of experience leading new product development engineering, program / product management, and sales & marketing teams inventing new technologies and operational processes through Total Customer Experience (TCE) and Customer Focused Design (CFD) methodologies.Broad experience in mid/large sized organizations as general manager for consulting services, product line R&D manager, program manager, solution architect, and lead design engineer. Particularly successful at attracting talents, building strong teams, inventing new products/services, creating change in organizations at a human/process level and improving performance while focusing on maximizing the customer experience.• 15+ years of experience managing large scaled software projects in both commercial and academic settings (AI / ML, GenAI, LLM, prompt engineering, recommendation systems, personalization, cloud computing, utility computing, system management, virtualization, online commerce, real-time application, NASA & NSF wireless heterogeneous data communication, etc.) • Demonstrated vision and leadership to global teams that kept teams focused and motivated.• Exceptional track record for managing global project execution and delivering full lifecycle software projects on time with quality while saving resources and growing revenues.• Strong relationship management abilities, able to build rapport, affinity, and agreement to develop business with both internal and external worldwide customers. • Proven ability to translate customer needs to requirements and effectively communicate them to execs and engineering teams.• International working and management experience with multi-national education backgroundSpecialties: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, LLM, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, Recommendation Systems, Personalization, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, System Management, Data Center Automation, Virtualization, Integrated Systems, Private & Public Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud Solutions.

Experience

1. Head of Product Management, Cloud Ai Infrastructure, Google Cloud

   Google

   Dec 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Work with a group of talented and customer-focused product managers, technical program managers, software engineers, UX researchers/designers/writers, and data scientists to build accelerator-enabled AI/ML (including GenAI / LLM) infrastructure solutions as part of the core platform behind Google Cloud services and mission-critical systems serving across Alphabet (including DeepMind, Vertex, YouTube, Starline, Meet, etc.).2024 - now- Google Cloud AI Infrastructure (GPU VM)20••••24- Gemini Cloud console-based chat experience (Gemini Cloud Assist)- Google Cloud Active Assist Solution- Google Cloud Carbon Footprint- Google Cloud Console Experiences (Wayfinding, Search & Communications)- Google Cloud Mobile Apps20••••21- Google Cloud Recommendation Platform- Google Cloud Integration Platform- Product Lead for Google Cloud Apigee IntegrationGemini for Google Cloud - Built on top of Google\'s leading large foundation models, Duet AI is specially trained to help you be more productive on Google Cloud. Duet AI in Google Cloud leverages the Vertex AI platform to provide personal and contextualized AI assistance while keeping your data private and secure.Recommendation Platform - The platform simplifies ML model development pipeline and enables GCP engineering teams to generate predictive analysis and intelligent insights for Google cloud customers, and empowers cloud users to optimize their workloads, reduce cost, increase security, and improve manageability. As the platform team, we work with engineering teams and build solutions at Google scale.Apigee Integration - An unified solution that lets developers connect their existing applications, build and manage APIs within the same interface; a set of pre-built connectors to Salesforce, Cloud SQL, Cloud Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and others; advanced integration patterns, such as required looping, parallel execution, data mapping, conditional routing, manual approvals, and event-based triggers.

Education

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  MS, Telecommunications

  1998 — 2000

• Qingdao University

  BS, Computer Science / Applied Mathematics

  1991 — 1995

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  MS, Computer Science

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Strategy
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Business Planning
• Business Strategy Design
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Computing
• Project Management
• Telecommunications
• Data Center
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Distributed Team Management
• Systems Management
• Virtualization
• .net
• Private Cloud
• Software Design
• Saas
• Visual Studio
• Pre-Sales
• Mobile Applications
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Business Process
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Global Business Development
• Grid Computing
• Software Project Management
• System Deployment
• Integration
• Architectures
• Agile Methodologies
• Architecture
• Management
• Program Management