Richard Sikang Bian

Head of Open Source, Ant Group

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Bio

Richard led Ant Group Open Source initiative from day 1 and developed the initiative from a single person effort to a cross-functional OSPO team covering governance, strategy, developer experience, product development, growth and internationalization efforts. The team collaborates closely with 20+ internal open source projects to help their community development, data science needs, developer growth needs, outreach and partnership collaborations, and go-to-market expansions.As an ex-Square, ex-Microsoft engineer, Richard has been studying and working for more than 5 years each in 4 different countries (Singapore, Canada, USA and China) with immensely cross-cultural collaboration experience.