Alipay-backed Chope names ex-Huawei exec as CTO

Singapore-based food and beverage firm Chope announced the appointment of Rufus Jiang as chief technology officer (CTO).

Experience:

• Jiang was a senior director of engineering at Huawei where he developed DevOps tools, cloud security solutions, and microservice-based cloud applications.
• He was also a software development manager at Amazon and a senior engineering manager at Microsoft, where he worked for 18 years.

More details:

• Jiang joins Chope after the company received US$15 million from Alipay in August as part of a partnership deal.
• At Chope, the newly appointed CTO is expected to boost the firm’s talent training and acquisition efforts, while carrying out technology, data, and engineering responsibilities.