Charles Cao
Chief Executive Officer at Mega Nova AI
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Cao is a CEO and systems architect with nine years of leadership in decentralized AI, Web3 and secure cloud infrastructure, currently building Nova OS—an AI operating system tailored for regulated industries. He has repeatedly founded and scaled GPU/cloud and DePIN initiatives (Nebula Block, Swan Cloud, Nebula AI) that blend confidential computing, Canadian data-residency compliance, and OpenAI-compatible inference to cut inference costs by up to 90%. Charles bridges deep technical work—GPU orchestration, multi-tier model routing, long-context optimization—with ecosystem-building, having helped grow networks to thousands of compute providers and dozens of strategic partners. He also mentors founders on tokenomics, DePIN go-to-market, and AI agent infrastructure, reflecting a rare mix of product, research, and token-based fundraising experience. Based in Montreal with degrees from Fudan and Concordia, he’s equally comfortable in low-level embedded systems and cutting-edge distributed AI stacks—a background that informs his focus on auditable, regulation-ready AI deployments.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Master, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Concordia UniversityBachelor, Electronic engineering, Bachelor, Electronic engineering at Fudan University
Github Skills (105)
visa10
payment-service10
ipfs10
storage10
filecoin10
reference-implementation10
amazon-s310
blockchain10
service-provider10
ecosystem9
payment-integration9
payment9
golang9
apply9
payment-gateway9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
filswan/swan-client
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Client side for Filswan Platform
Contributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 months
laravelphpclient-side
flyworker/python-automation-testing
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:44 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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