Bin Fan is the VP of Technology at Alluxio. Prior to joining Alluxio as a founding engineer, he worked for Google to build the next-generation storage infrastructure. Bin received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University on the design and implementation of distributed systems.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
I’m passionate about solving complex technical challenges that have a real-world impact. I love working on distributed systems and storage infrastructure because they form the critical foundation that powers all the incredible applications, from the Hadoop era to the GenAI era.

Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects. Intelligent data tiering and data management deliver consistent high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Alluxio is in production use today at seven out of the top ten internet companies. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Seven Seas Partners, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project.