# Feng Lee

> Feng Lee is the co-founder and CEO of EMQ and the creator of the messaging project that became EMQX. His work spans MQTT infrastructure, distributed systems and the design of the Hamler programming language. EMQ was established in 2017 after the software’s earlier project years.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at EMQ
- **Organizations:** EMQ, Huawei
- **Known for:** Created the MQTT messaging project that became EMQX., Co-founded EMQ, established in 2017., Designed the Hamler programming language, publicly released in 2020.

## Career timeline

- **Before EMQ** — Worked at Huawei on core communications protocol-stack development; previously founded an enterprise software business.
- **2012** — Early EMQ project site dates creation of the Erlang/OTP MQTT broker to 2012.
- **2013** — EMQ’s later statements date the Apache 2.0 launch of EMQX to 2013.
- **2017** — EMQ established as a commercial company.
- **2020** — Credited as designer of Hamler at its first public release; presented it at EMQ’s Chengdu meetup.
- **2022** — Led EMQ as EMQX 5.0 reached a reported test milestone of 100 million concurrent connections in one cluster.
- **2025** — Announced EMQX’s move to a unified platform under Business Source License 1.1.
- **2026** — Presented EMQ’s physical-world and AI strategy in Hangzhou; continued as founder and CEO in the October Oracle Marketplace announcement.

## Achievements

- Created the MQTT messaging project that became EMQX.
- Co-founded EMQ, established in 2017.
- Designed the Hamler programming language, publicly released in 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — EMQ announced its first Oracle Marketplace customer transaction; Lee discussed making EMQX more accessible to enterprises on OCI.
- **2026-03** — Lee presented EMQ’s technology and strategy at the March 20 Hangzhou Tech Day.
- **2025-05** — EMQ announced that EMQX 5.9 would combine community and enterprise editions under BSL 1.1.

## Links

- Website: https://www.emqx.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feng-lee-05559b1bb/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/emqplus
- GitHub: https://github.com/emqplus

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Last updated: 2026-10-25