Summary
Owen Sun is a seasoned senior enterprise architect and technical leader, currently guiding China Minsheng Banking Corp. as Senior Enterprise Architect after a landmark IBM tenure. At IBM, he led global platform initiatives with 30+ applications, 9 squads and 70+ engineers, driving platform modernization to cloud-native, domain-driven microservices, containerization and serverless architectures. He steered IBM's Marketplace Digital Commerce from scratch (2013–2019), expanding commerce capabilities across IBM SaaS, hardware, and marketplace channels, and contributing to the Leads to Cash platform with Salesforce and Apttus, culminating in $700M revenue in 2019. His expertise spans domain-driven design, microservices, DevSecOps, and distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, Zookeeper, Elasticsearch), with deep CRM/Q2C experience involving Salesforce, Sugar, Apttus, and Zuora. He holds IBM TOGAF-certified Thought Leader Level architecture and teaches Architectural Thinking, along with being a Certified Agile Scrum Master, bringing a strong track record of agile transformation and cross-cultural leadership. Based in Beijing, he combines hands-on delivery with strategic, global-scale architecture.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Hebei University of Technology