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Richard Sikang Bian: OSPO at Ant Group

At the Linux Foundation Member Summit in Napa, I’ve been fortunate to meet Richard, an OSS lead at the Ant Group. Richard is a real OG when it comes to OSS strategy and developer relations. He started the OSPO at Ant and drives a multitude of impactful OSS projects. At the LFMS, Richard co-presented on a graph framework that allows for deep dives into GitHub ecosystem. Richard proves that technology is a people’s business first and foremost. You have to like and understand people, and everyth

At the Linux Foundation Member Summit in Napa, I’ve been fortunate to meet Richard, an OSS lead at the Ant Group. Richard is a real OG when it comes to OSS strategy and developer relations. He started the OSPO at Ant and drives a multitude of impactful OSS projects. At the LFMS, Richard co-presented on a graph framework that allows for deep dives into GitHub ecosystem.

Alexy talks with Richard in Napa

Richard proves that technology is a people’s business first and foremost. You have to like and understand people, and everything else follows from it. Doing OSS on a global scale in a fast shifting landscape is only possible when we collaborate and keep our priorities straight: the positive influence of OSS culture will overcome every obstacle. I’m happy to work with Richard at LFAI on graph AI projects!