As the CTO of Dianrong.com, Ling is responsible for leading hundreds of engineers working on innovation products related to financial technology. Ling has spent over a decade working in startups and large technology companies in Silicon Valley and Shanghai. Prior to Dianrong, he was the VP of Production at a Sequoia-funded startup in Shanghai, leading the development of a multimedia platform for millions of users to consume social web and mobile multimedia content. Before that he has played key roles at Microsoft and NetApp, building large scale enterprise solutions on private and public clouds.

Ling graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems, concentrating in Human Computer Interaction and Persuasive Technology. He is also a regular guest lecturer at Beijing University to computer science and MBA students on the topics of internet finance and cross domain technology innovation.