Bart Dong

Bart Dong serves as Senior Engineer at Tencent and Director of the TARS Foundation, where he has established himself as a key leader in open source microservices technology. After building nine years of expertise in large-scale Internet applications and operations, he has taken on a pivotal role in shaping the TARS ecosystem. As Director of the TARS Foundation, he leads initiatives to help businesses embrace microservices architecture, managing everything from application markets and mobile security to operational planning and resource allocation. Under his leadership, TARS has evolved from an internal Tencent project running on over one million nodes to an open-source framework supporting multiple programming languages including C++, Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python. Through his stewardship of the TARS Foundation, established in March 2020 under the Linux Foundation umbrella, he continues to advance microservices adoption while fostering a growing community of contributors focused on helping organizations quickly scale their applications.