Jarod Ruan

Jarod Ruan serves as Chief Technology Officer at UpChina and Core Maintainer of the TARS framework, where he has established himself as a key figure in distributed systems development. As a TARS Foundation Ambassador and core maintainer, he contributes significantly to the foundation's mission of building an open microservices ecosystem. Through his leadership at UpChina, one of TARS Foundation's end-user companies, he continues to advance microservices adoption while maintaining deep involvement in the TARS community's technical direction and growth. His expertise in backend distributed systems has helped shape the TARS framework's development, contributing to its evolution from an internal Tencent project to an open-source platform under the Linux Foundation umbrella that helps organizations quickly scale their applications.