Jiahang Xu
KubeVela Maintainer, LFAPAC Open Source Evangelist, Speaker for KubeCon, Apsara Con, System Architect at China Merchants Bank,
Chengdu, China
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Jiahang Xu is a System Architect at China Merchants Bank. He has over 15 years of unique cross-domain experience working in telecom, automotive, financial industry, startup as a co-founder, and KubeVela maintainer. He's mainly focused on cloud-native application technology practice in recent years. He is seasoned in the application management system and is responsible for building large-scale financial platform engineering for China Merchants Bank.
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The Journey of Next-Gen FinTech IDP at China Merchants Bank
Explore China Merchants Bank's (CMB), one of China's largest retail banks, transformative journey through cloud migration, cloud-native transformation, and platform engineering over the past three years. Despite challenges such as increased complexity in cloud technology and management, and potential risks to developer productivity and continuous assurance of financial services, CMB successfully leveraged KubeVela, OpenFeature, Envoy, Clilum, and OpenTelemetry to build the Next-Gen FinTech IDP. This led to the management of 70% of applications within a year and improved developer experience, covering thousands of R&D engineers. We'll discuss the strategic thinking, 'Golden Path' implementation, struggles, trade-offs, and key success metrics with platform engineering maturity model. This session provides a blueprint and reference architecture for financial organizations undergoing similar transformations.
Large-scale Financial-Grade Platform Engineering Practice in China Merchants Bank
As one of the biggest banks in China, China Merchants Bank has been a contributor and pioneer in cloud-native financial production practices for its rapid digital transformation. But we face challenges in balancing cloud-native application adoption with banking's higher demand for security compliance, transaction consistency, and full-chain business risk management. Meanwhile, we need to face the cloud-native evolution issue caused by the banking IT org structure.
Platform engineering, leveraging CNCF projects such as KubeVela, OpenFeature, Envoy, Opentelemetry, OPA, and Team Topologies patterns, is a pragmatic solution to address these challenges related to technology and org structure.
In this talk, we'll share our financial-grade platform engineering practices to provide a consistent developer experience, streamline the DevOps process, improve efficiency and reduce errors with end-to-end observability, and implement security risk policies to ensure compliance and risk control.
"One-Track Pattern" Platform: Bridging Cloud-Native and AI Capabilities
Enterprises face a critical choice: prioritize cloud-native transformation or embrace AI-driven innovation. Cloud-native adoption enhances agility but adds complexity, while AI infrastructure requires new paradigms for scalability, governance, and security. At China Merchants Bank, we leveraged Platform Engineering to unify both, evolving from a large-scale cloud-native platform into an AI-powered engineering framework in "One-Track Pattern". By integrating technologies (KubeVela, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, etc) with AI infrastructure (Kubeflow, PyTorch, vLLM, etc), we enhanced DevOps, observability, and compliance while enabling enterprise AI adoption. This session shares our strategic practice, technical insights, and reference architecture for organizations to gain both benefits from cloud-native and AI transformation.
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