Data & AI partner

Yanbing Li

Helps you plan and use AI, cloud and software tools safely, drawing on more than 30 years of leading software teams.

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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Chinese, English 34 yrs experience
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Yanbing can help you

  1. 01Finding practical ways to use AI in daily work
  2. 02Planning an AI chatbot to answer common support questions
  3. 03Moving to cloud tools like AWS
  4. 04Basic cybersecurity and safer software practices
  5. 05Organizing tech projects so they get delivered

About Yanbing

Yanbing spent more than 25 years at Fujitsu Network Communications, where Yanbing rose from software developer to VP and Head of Optical Software & Systems, leading teams across the US, Canada and India. In that role Yanbing led a DevOps transformation, put a secure software development framework in place, and led the rollout of an AI chatbot for internal customer support. In 2024 Yanbing founded iSterna, LLC, which focuses on software system architecture, modernization and AI-assisted workflows. Yanbing is also Chair of the Board of the DFW IT Association and holds AWS Cloud Practitioner and (ISC)2 CC certifications.

Best fit: A growing business that wants to start using AI or cloud tools and needs an experienced tech leader to plan the work and keep it secure.

Software development leadershipAI strategy and adoptionGenerative AI chatbotsCybersecurity and secure software practicesCloud infrastructureDevOps transformationSystem architectureOperating-model designBuilding and growing global teamsCustomer support organization design

Experience

  1. Chair of the Board
    DFW IT Association · 2026–Present
  2. President
    DFW IT Association · 2025–2025
  3. Founder & Executive Leader
    iSterna, LLC · 2024–Present
  4. VP, Head of Optical Software & Systems
    Fujitsu Network Communications · 2020–2024
  5. Sr. Dir./Dir., System Software & Product Development and Delivery
    Fujitsu Network Communications · 2006–2020
  6. Member Board of Directors
    Topaz Labs · 2005–2026
  7. Manager/Sr. Manager, Software Development
    Fujitsu Network Communications · 1998–2006
  8. Sr. Software Developer
    Fujitsu Network Communications · 1997–1998
  9. Sr. Software Development Engineer, Team Lead
    Nortel · 1992–1997
Building AI Agents with Multimodal Models (NVIDIA) Claude Code: Software Engineering with Generative AI Agents (Vanderbilt University) Generative AI for Software Development (DeepLearning.AI) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Amazon Web Services) (ISC)2 CC (ISC2) AI Applications for Growth (Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management) Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence for Leaders (Texas McCombs School of Business) Delivering Business Growth: An Actionable Framework (Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management) Business Analytics: Decision Making With Data (Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management) Product Strategy (Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management)

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