Clement Pang
Entrepreneur and Software Engineer in Menlo Park, CA, United States
I am currently working on my 3rd company (stealth-mode)!
Clement Pang served as VP/Principal Engineer at VMware (2017-2021), working in the Modern Applications Platform Business Unit. He was previously the Chief Architect and Co-founder of Wavefront (SHV/Sequoia/Tenaya Capital, acq'd by VMware in May 2017).
Wavefront was a journey to create a massively scalable time-series database and query engine, a SaaS product that hundreds of thousands of engineers rely on every day to make decisions, identify problems, and find solutions to challenges. At Wavefront, Clement architected, designed, and built the software that handled beyond 20 million data points per second running on commodity hardware on public clouds with the ability to query data in real-time (average of 2s of lag until data materialization).
Before Wavefront, Clement led (TL/Staff Engineer) the infrastructure group that handled the processing of signals and machine learning models responsible for protecting significant Google properties (AdWords, AdSense, Checkout, and Gmail) against fraud and abuse.
Clement was born and raised in Hong Kong and attended Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a degree in CS and ECE. He is recognized by Rice University as an Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni and is active in the Bay Area Asian American community through volunteer work with the Chinese diaspora.