# Jason Ding

> Jason Ding is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce, leading the engineering teams behind Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Revenue Cloud — the backbone of the world's largest CRM platform. A PhD computer scientist turned performance engineering pioneer, he set nine SPEC benchmark world records at Cisco, helped drive UCS to $1 billion in revenue in under three years, and is now steering Salesforce's engineering toward a future of AI agents and billion-transaction-per-day scale. With 14+ years at Salesforce and deep roots in academia and chip-level performance work at Intel, Ding brings a rare combination of theoretical rigor and enterprise execution.

- **Role:** Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce
- **Organizations:** Salesforce, Cisco Systems, SAP Ariba, Intel Corporation, Texas A&M University, Stanford University, Fudan University
- **Nationality:** Chinese-American
- **Education:** B.Sc. in Computer Science, Fudan University, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Fudan University, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Set 9 world records on SPECjbb 2005 benchmark on Cisco UCS Servers (Q4'2009 to Q3'2011), Led team with Oracle and EMC to set 4 world records on SPECjEnterprise 2010 and SPECjAppServer 2004, Helped Cisco UCS achieve $1 billion in revenue within 2.5 years of launch

## Career timeline

- **1990-1994** — PhD research in Computer Science at Texas A&M University
- **1994-1998** — Senior Performance Engineer and Staff Systems Architect at Intel Corporation
- **1998-2005** — ASC Manager & Lead Engineer at Intel, rising through senior engineering roles
- **2005-2007** — Management Science & Engineering program at Stanford University
- **2009-2011** — Principal Engineer and GM at Cisco Systems; led team to 9 SPEC benchmark world records on UCS; helped UCS reach $1B revenue in 2.5 years
- **2011** — Joined Salesforce in engineering leadership
- **2015** — Keynote speaker at O'Reilly Velocity Conference: 'Prevent, Rather than Fix: Scaling to Enable Customers'
- **2018** — Represented Salesforce Engineering team at Velocity Conference
- **2020-02** — Promoted to Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce
- **2024-2025** — Led Salesforce engineering presence at Agentforce Innovation Day (Taipei) and Agentforce World Tour (Tokyo); earned Agentblazer Legend status
- **2025-2026** — Scaling Salesforce engineering in India to build next-gen Sales Cloud; driving toward 1B+ AI/data transactions per day

## Achievements

- Set 9 world records on SPECjbb 2005 benchmark on Cisco UCS Servers (Q4'2009 to Q3'2011)
- Led team with Oracle and EMC to set 4 world records on SPECjEnterprise 2010 and SPECjAppServer 2004
- Helped Cisco UCS achieve $1 billion in revenue within 2.5 years of launch
- Promoted to SVP of Engineering at Salesforce in February 2020
- Named inventor on multiple Salesforce patents including boxcarring optimization and elastic cost-to-serve systems
- 26 academic publications cited by 595 researchers on ResearchGate
- Earned Agentblazer Legend status - highest level on Salesforce Trailhead
- Delivered keynote at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2015 on performance engineering at scale
- Leads engineering for Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Revenue Cloud at Salesforce

## Latest updates

- **2025-2026** — Expanding Salesforce engineering team in India for next-gen Sales Cloud development
- **2024-2025** — Represented Salesforce Engineering at Agentforce Innovation Day in Taipei and Agentforce World Tour in Tokyo
- **2024-2025** — Served as judge for Salesforce's Agentforce for Good program
- **2024** — Earned Agentblazer Legend status on Salesforce Trailhead
- **2024** — Engineering team launched Agentforce Contact Center

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonding/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jding
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5AANuJcHe4

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Last updated: 2026-04-30