Angel Lai
Founder at Medoo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAngel Lai is a founder and full-stack engineer with 13 years building consumer-facing startups and developer tools from New York. He designs and ships simple, well-crafted products end-to-end—most recently an iOS browser (Gear) and social platforms (Catfan, Mu6) that garnered millions of impressions and loyal users. As the author of Medoo, a lightweight PHP database framework with 4.5k+ stars and 800k+ Packagist downloads, he combines practical open-source impact with deep back-end expertise in query handling and data mapping. Comfortable leading engineering teams and owning product design, Angel favors clarity and minimalism in both UX and code, striving to “make coding perfect” through simplicity. An unconventional path—college dropout turned repeat founder—underscores his hands-on, results-driven approach to building beloved software.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped out student, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General, Dropped out student, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General at South China University of Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
databases10
php10
sql10
database10
object-oriented-programming9
database-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
catfan/Medoo
Mar 2013 - Jan 2023
The lightweight PHP database framework to accelerate the development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 releases, 1 review, 468 commits in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Angel's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Medoo database framework. They implemented features to improve JOIN support and added support for a more complex relativity condition. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to data type handling and date conditions. They also made modifications to improve the output of the last query and the data mapping of the SELECT results.
mysqlphp-frameworksphpsqlphp71
catfan/php-the-right-way
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
phpstandardsphp73php-apiphp7
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