# Luke Han

> Luke Han is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kyligence, the enterprise data analytics company built by the team that created Apache Kylin - the first Apache Software Foundation top-level project developed in China. A former eBay big data product lead, Han co-invented Apache Kylin in 2013, open-sourced it in 2014, then founded Kyligence in 2016 to commercialize the technology. Under his leadership, Kyligence raised $110M+ in funding including a $70M Series D, serves clients including UBS, McDonald's, and L'OREAL, and has evolved into an AI-powered metrics platform. Han is also a Microsoft Regional Director, Apache Kylin VP, Forbes Technology Council member, and Fortune China 40 Under 40 honoree.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Kyligence
- **Organizations:** Kyligence, Apache Software Foundation, Forbes Technology Council
- **From:** China
- **Nationality:** Chinese
- **Education:** Bachelor's, Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-created Apache Kylin, the first Apache Software Foundation Top Level Project developed in China, Fortune China 40 Under 40 honoree, Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP

## Career timeline

- **1998-2002** — Studied Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology
- **~2002-2010** — Technical Director at Power Excellence East China
- **~2010-2011** — Chief Consultant (Senior Consultant) at Actuate China, led the sales engineering team
- **2011** — Joined eBay as Staff BI Architect in the Global Analytics Infrastructure / Business Intelligence Platform Team
- **2013** — Became Head of Big Data Products at eBay; began developing what would become Apache Kylin
- **2014** — eBay contributed Apache Kylin to the Apache Software Foundation; Kylin became a distributed OLAP platform delivering sub-second queries at petabyte scale
- **2015** — Led team of 5-6 engineers in a pre-Chinese New Year sprint to create a one-command installer for Apache Kylin, transforming community adoption
- **2015-2016** — Apache Kylin became an Apache Software Foundation Top Level Project - the first TLP developed in China
- **2016** — Co-founded Kyligence with Apache Kylin creators; became CEO
- **2021** — Kyligence raised $70M Series D (April 2021); Han articulated vision of an 'analytics civilization'
- **2022** — Kyligence launched Kyligence Zen intelligent metrics store; achieved SOC 2 Type II certification; appeared in Gartner Innovation Insight Report
- **2023** — Joined Forbes Technology Council (March 2023); Kyligence launched AI Copilot for Data (Kyligence Copilot) powered by Azure OpenAI
- **2023-2025** — Continued evolving Kyligence into AI-powered metrics platform; keynotes and presentations at major data conferences

## Achievements

- Co-created Apache Kylin, the first Apache Software Foundation Top Level Project developed in China
- Fortune China 40 Under 40 honoree
- Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP
- Forbes Technology Council member (accepted March 2023)
- Listed among 'Coolest Data Analytics and BI CEOs of 2021' by Solutions Review
- Led Kyligence to raise $110M+ in total funding including $70M Series D
- Kyligence named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500
- Kyligence listed in Gartner's 2022 Innovation Insight Report for Metrics Stores
- VP of Apache Kylin at the Apache Software Foundation
- Grew Kyligence to serve clients including UBS, McDonald's, L'OREAL, Porsche, and China Construction Bank
- Speaker at Strata Data Conference, Hadoop Summit, QCon, ApacheCon across San Francisco, London, Beijing, and Shanghai

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Forbes Technology Council member, contributing articles on AI in data analytics
- **2023-09** — Kyligence Copilot launched - an AI copilot for data built on Azure OpenAI, enabling natural language queries against business metrics
- **2023-04** — Kyligence Zen intelligent metrics platform announced general availability
- **2023-03** — Joined Forbes Technology Council for world-class technology executives
- **2021-04** — Kyligence closed $70M Series D funding round to accelerate global expansion and AI development

## Links

- Website: https://kyligence.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukehq
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/lukehq
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzXb4ypMcK8
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/kyligenceinc/

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Last updated: 2026-05-25