Tao Liu is a co-founder of Hang Ten Systems, an AI development, implementation and consulting firm in Palo Alto, California, where he is senior vice president of forward deployed engineering. He holds a PhD in computer science from Nankai University in China and is known for building advanced technology teams at SAP, Infosys and Vianai, a history he shares with Hang Ten’s other co-founders.
From SAP’s Advanced Technology Group to Hang Ten
He led SAP’s advanced technology group and later served as senior vice president and chief of staff to the chief executive at Infosys (Vianai). At Vianai Systems, the enterprise AI company Vishal Sikka founded in 2019, he was head of operations. When Hang Ten launched in 2026 with a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield, he joined Sikka, Navin Budhiraja and Sanjay Rajagopalan as a co-founder to run its forward deployed engineering teams (AI Weekly). Hang Ten describes his expertise as frontier AI and building forward deployed engineering organizations.