Sheng Liang is the former President of Engineering and Innovation at SUSE where he led SUSE’s global team of engineers, and was responsible for the rapid growth of SUSE's expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to the Rancher container management platform. Prior to SUSE, Sheng was Co-Founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, and CTO of the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix Systems. He started as a Staff Engineer in Java Software at Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Sheng has a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He lives in the United States.