Chengjun Yuan

Covers Platform engineering, data and security

Chengjun Yuan

Co-founder & CTO, Suger

Chengjun Yuan is a co-founder and the CTO of Suger, writing on the engineering underneath marketplace automation — metering and usage data, the marketplace APIs Suger integrates with, and how the platform stays reliable and secure as it scales.

  • metering and usage data
  • marketplace API integrations
  • reliability and scale
  • security and compliance
  • AI systems

8 articles

How to Cut Security Questionnaire Cycle Time
Security

How to Cut Security Questionnaire Cycle Time

Security review adds weeks to marketplace deals, and it's the same questions every time. How a reusable evidence pack lets you answer once instead of per deal.

Chengjun Yuan
Security Questions Buyers Ask About Your Ops
Security

Security Questions Buyers Ask About Your Ops

When a buyer's IT team reviews the tools you run their transaction data through, the questions are predictable. The checklist to be ready for, grouped by theme.

Chengjun Yuan
FedRAMP and Your Cloud Marketplace Listing
Security

FedRAMP and Your Cloud Marketplace Listing

FedRAMP decides whether a US agency may run your software; your marketplace listing decides how they buy it. Here is how the authorization and the listing actually connect.

Chengjun Yuan
Creating Private Offers Without the Console
Cloud GTM

Creating Private Offers Without the Console

Generating an offer from CRM data is a small amount of code and a large amount of failure handling. The asynchronous parts are what decide whether the integration holds.

Chengjun Yuan
How Security Reviews Shape Marketplace Deals
Security

How Security Reviews Shape Marketplace Deals

Being on a cloud marketplace means the provider vetted your artifact. It does not mean the buyer's security team will skip theirs, and confusing the two costs weeks.

Chengjun Yuan
How Authentication Works for Marketplace APIs
Cloud GTM

How Authentication Works for Marketplace APIs

Marketplace API access is machine-to-machine, long-lived and organisation-scoped. That combination breaks most of the credential habits teams bring to it.

Chengjun Yuan
Exporting Marketplace Data to Your Warehouse
Cloud GTM

Exporting Marketplace Data to Your Warehouse

Marketplace data arrives daily, in CSV, with two different timestamps on every row. Here is how to land it in a warehouse without corrupting your history.

Chengjun Yuan
Marketplace Access: Who Should Have Which Role
Cloud GTM

Marketplace Access: Who Should Have Which Role

Marketplace tooling touches pricing, contracts and bank details in one console. Most teams grant everyone admin and find out at the audit. Here is a least-privilege default.

Chengjun Yuan

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