Xiaofan Luan is a partner and CTO of Zilliz, as well as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the LF AI & Data Foundation. Prior to joining Zilliz, he served as a development manager at Alibaba Cloud, responsible for the research and development of the NoSQL database Lindorm. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Oracle Corporation in the United States and software-defined storage company Hedvig. Xiaofan Luan holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Cornell University.