Yongli Chen is the Founder & CEO of Edgenesis. Edgenesis focuses on Kubernetes-native IoT development stack. At the core of the stack is Shifu, an open-source industry edge addressing IoT interoperability problems. Shifu has been adopted worldwide, connecting to more than 10 million devices. Prior to Edgenesis, Mr. Chen spent several years at Microsoft Azure Core Compute and Networking. He is the creator of Microsoft Azure NPM, a distributed cloud native firewall, which has been adopted by many Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Chen holds a Masters degree in Computer Science, a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelors degree in Physics, all from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.