Gang Tao
Co-founder & CTO at Timeplus
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGang Tao is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO with over two decades of software architecture and development experience and 13 years in senior engineering roles across startups and enterprise firms. He has led platform and machine learning initiatives at Splunk and built ultra-fast real-time analytics products as Chief Architect at Holaverse and co-founder of Timeplus, blending hands-on coding (C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go) with product and team leadership. His background spans large-scale data collection, cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, AWS, Docker), BI and visualization (SAP Lumira, OpenUI5, HANA) and ERP integrations, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from telecom NMS to modern ML pipelines. Known for pragmatic designs that balance performance and simplicity, he also mentors engineers and drives cross-functional collaboration across global teams. An interesting detail: alongside enterprise work he maintains a creative developer presence (hola studio, cantk) suggesting a habit of building polished developer-facing tools and explorations.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master Telecommunication Network Management, Master Telecommunication Network Management at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBachelor Computer Communications, Bachelor Computer Communications at Xidian University
English
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
canvas10
node-canvas10
game-engine9
game-development9
runtimes8
spine8
2d7
2d-vector6
animation6
game-dev6
vector5
drawing5
webgl4
equals4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drawapp8/gamebuilder
Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push in 7 months
drawapp8/cantk-runtime-demos
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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