About
Hangzhou DataFlowForever Technology Co., Ltd.
We provide growth services across four stages of the cross-border ecommerce journey: Acquire, Convert, Engage, and Optimize. The goal is not more tools, but a working connection between problems, data, action, and review that the client team can continue to use.
Data · Aggregate · Forever · Flow
Data has a home, becomes fact, accumulates over time, and keeps moving.
Data is the source of fact. Every decision starts here — not in a meeting room.
Scattered numbers become one shared truth — same metrics, same definitions, same source.
Short-term wins still matter. But operational learning, model intelligence and brand reputation accrue over years.
Data must keep moving — ingest, analyze, write back to ads / products / emails, then feed results back.
Founder
YC: bringing systems thinking into cross-border growth
YC is the founder of DataFlowForever and FosterFlow. For nearly two decades, he has worked across advertising, cross-border commerce, payments, marketplaces, and marketing automation with one consistent focus: turning complex problems into systems that run reliably and improve over time.
Before founding the current companies, he worked on and led engineering across Alibaba.com advertising, Tmall technology, AliExpress global architecture and engineering, Alipay US, and Shopee Marketplace. His experience spans core architecture and engineering organizations of more than 100 people, including multi-market systems, regional infrastructure, transaction consistency, and cross-functional execution.
Today he applies that systems background closer to commercial outcomes: connecting ads, product data, customer data, email, and attribution, then turning validated methods into FosterFlow product capabilities and DataFlowForever services.
Cross-border paid-media operations
US$30M+ / approx. RMB 200M
Hands-on management of more than US$30 million—approximately RMB 200 million—in cumulative paid-media spend for cross-border independent sites.
- Long-term focus
- Cross-border commerce, advertising, payments, and marketing automation
- Systems background
- Global architecture, transaction systems, and 100+ person engineering organizations
- Current work
- Turning data, AI, and growth operations into executable systems
Education: Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and master's degree from Zhejiang University, both in Computer Software Engineering
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Lead author
《大型系统应用架构实战》
A Chinese-language book on deployment, resilience, and performance optimization
Founder note
Clarify the problem before choosing the tool.
I want every DataFlowForever engagement to begin with a real business problem worth solving. Technology, AI, and automation only become useful once the problem, owner, and measure of success are clear. We will explain complexity plainly and be candid when the right next step is to wait.
YC
Sibling brands, shared roots
DataFlowForever and FosterFlow are sibling brands with the same founder, team, technology foundation, and values. Their products and delivery models differ; they are not a parent-subsidiary group.
Growth methods, bounded service capabilities, and operating partnerships for cross-border teams (this site).
What we hold ourselves to
We prefer client-owned accounts and define ownership and access boundaries for data, configuration, and deliverables in each engagement. We do not sell client data or use it to train public models; access is revoked and assets are handed over as agreed.
Beyond the immediate work, we leave agreed definitions, configuration, reports, Playbooks, or handover notes. A client should not lose the ability to operate when an external engagement ends.
Every service spells out an analogy, the deliverables, who it fits and how it's priced — customers shouldn't be hostage to jargon. If you can't understand it, we won't sell it to you.
Agents go where they consistently raise efficiency and quality — audit, diagnosis, reporting, content compliance. Any change to live ads, products or emails defaults to human review.
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Start with one growth problem
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