Kuaishou’s CTO Resignation Prompts Development Overhaul After 8 Months

According to the data acquired, Kuaishou‘s R&D division just lately underwent a structural adjustment. The Basic Technology Department was abolished and changed by the Basic Platform Department and Infrastructure Department. The related groups and duties of the unique Basic Technology Department have been respectively built-in into these two newly established departments. The former head of the Basic Technology Department, Wei Bin, has been appointed as a technical guide to report back to Yu Bing, Senior Vice President of Kuaishou. At the identical time, Wei Bin now not serves as Chairman of the Technical Group Server Development Channel and Technical Operations Channel; Yu Bing has taken over as Chairman of the Server Development Channel.

As of the time of writing, there was no response from Kuaishou concerning this information.

This is a vital adjustment within the growth line of Kuaishou after the resignation of its CTO, Chen Dingjia. In January this yr, Chen Dingjia resigned as CTO of Kuaishou. He has held this place since November 2015 and was a classmate of Su Hua, the previous CEO of Kuaishou, at Tsinghua University. After Chen Dingjia’s resignation, Yu Yue, the Senior Vice President answerable for algorithm expertise, and Yu Bing, the Senior Vice President answerable for audio and video expertise, collectively managed the corporate. The growth line of Kuaishou is now below the administration of Yu Bing.

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After the architectural adjustment in September 2021, Wei Bin took on the position of head of the R&D Line and System Operations Department at Kuaishou. Following a latest architectural adjustment at Kuaishou, Wei Bin’s job duties have been taken over by two people. Ye Lin is answerable for the Basic Platform Department, primarily specializing in the analysis and growth of common expertise platforms similar to system software program, databases, and technical operation platforms, in addition to offering SRE service help. Zhang Jiajun is in command of the Infrastructure Department, primarily answerable for the analysis and growth, building, operation, price administration, and provide assure of infrastructure applied sciences together with networks, servers, and knowledge facilities. Both report back to Yu Bing. Additionally, there have been some personnel changes inside these two departments.

Since the top of October 2021, there have been a number of rounds of organizational changes in Kuaishou after Su Hua stepped down as CEO. Currently, a number of executives together with former Kuaishou CTO Chen Dingjia, former CEO Su Hua’s enterprise assistant Peng Jiatong, and former CFO Zhong Yiqi have resigned. Tang Yuyu, a member of Kuaishou’s administration committee and Su Hua’s spouse is now not answerable for frontline operations. At the identical time, there have been changes to the leaders of core companies similar to Kuaishou Main Station, Commercialization, E-commerce, Local Life Services, and Overseas Expansion. After Cheng Yixiao took over as CEO, there was additionally a change in Kuaishou’s growth technique from aggressive growth to price discount and effectivity enchancment with the purpose of turning losses into income.

In this context, the event staff of Kuaishou has been constantly adjusting. Among them, the Basic Technology Department has made some personnel reductions this yr, with a transparent intention to cut back prices and enhance effectivity.

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