About me
Richard Sikang Bian is Head of Open Source at Ant Group. As an engineer by training, Richard was an ex-Square, ex-Microsoft software engineer who had been living in the States for 10+ years. He built Ant Group's first OSPO and has been leading and growing the team from a strategy initiative to a full functional team. He is in charge of Ant OSS governance, operations, strategy and international growth initiatives and is actively working with all open source projects and external partners.
He has a multi-cultural background as he's been studying and working in Singapore, Canada, the States and China for more than 5 years each, and firmly believes in the power of open and global collaboration.