Jove Zhong

Jove Zhong leads Forward Deployed Engineering at Cresta, where he works with enterprise customers to move AI agents from prototypes into production. His team integrates systems, tunes models, builds evaluations, and feeds lessons from customer deployments back into the product. Previously, he co-founded Timeplus and spent more than two decades in engineering roles at IBM and Splunk.

Career

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Based in: Vancouver
Elsewhere

Cresta

Until Present

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

Timeplus

Sep 2021 — Aug 2025

Co-founder & Head of Product

Splunk

Director of Software Engineering
Nov 2017 — Mar 2021
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Director of Software Engineering
Feb 2015 — Oct 2017
Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China
Senior Software Development Manager
Jul 2013 — 2015
Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China

Dell Technologies

Manager, Software Engineering
2009 — Jul 2013
Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China
Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2008 — Dec 2008
Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China

IBM

Staff Software Engineer
Oct 2006 — Sep 2008
Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China
Software Engineer
Nov 2004 — Sep 2006
Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China

Fudan University

Bachelor's studies in software

Products & media

cresta.com

How Cresta Built a World-Class Forward Deployed Engineering Team in a Year

Writing

fdehub.org

The New McKinsey: A Conversation with Jove Zhong

A conversation about what forward deployed engineers do, why Cresta places the team in engineering, and how they take customer AI agents into production.

Media appearance

xiaoyuzhoufm.com

派往前线的工程师：FDE 为什么是 AI 落地时代最重要的职业 — Indigo Talk EP50

A 72-minute conversation about the FDE role, enterprise AI deployment, and the work of building Cresta’s FDE team.

Media appearance

newsletter.bigtechcareers.com

Where Does the FDE Role Belong?

An argument for placing forward deployed engineering within product engineering, with examples of the coding, integrations, and evaluation work involved.

Writing

newsletter.bigtechcareers.com

Breaking Into AI FDE Roles Through a Hiring Manager’s Lens

Guidance on the engineering, customer-facing, and AI experience Jove looks for when hiring forward deployed engineers.

Writing

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Jove Zhong

Cresta

Timeplus

Splunk

Director of Software Engineering

Director of Software Engineering

Senior Software Development Manager

Dell Technologies

Manager, Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

IBM

Staff Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Fudan University

Products & media

How Cresta Built a World-Class Forward Deployed Engineering Team in a Year

The New McKinsey: A Conversation with Jove Zhong

派往前线的工程师：FDE 为什么是 AI 落地时代最重要的职业 — Indigo Talk EP50

Where Does the FDE Role Belong?

Breaking Into AI FDE Roles Through a Hiring Manager’s Lens

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