Jiachen Bai

Head of the Intelligent R&D Center at TiDB and a senior engineer

Jiachen Bai is Head of the Intelligent R&D Center at PingCAP (TiDB) and a Senior Engineer. He has long focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence and software engineering. He currently leads product development and team building in intelligent R&D, with a focus on applying large language models and agent technologies to enterprise software development. Previously, he worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a Silicon Valley autonomous driving company, where he gained extensive experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale engineering. He later served as a Founding Engineer at a startup, where he built TabbyML, an open-source AI coding agent, from the ground up. The project has gained more than 30,000 stars in the global open-source community and has become a widely recognized open-source project in the AI coding agent space. He has extensive hands-on experience and deep insights into agent architecture, AI-native software development paradigms, and enterprise AI application deployment. He is committed to exploring how AI can evolve from a personal productivity tool into a core source of productivity at the organizational level.