Hank Bao
Co-Founder & CTO at Coldreach (YC W23)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolHank Bao is a focused technology founder and CTO with 13 years of engineering experience, currently co-leading Coldreach after incubating EasyJobs where he built a one-click application flow used by 50K+ job seekers and data pipelines ingesting 10M job listings. He blends systems-level thinking—from toy OS development and global path-planning algorithms to massive Spark-based data validation—with hands-on product delivery that achieved >99% accuracy in form recognition. Based in Los Angeles and a Y Combinator W23 alum, Hank excels at turning messy data into reliable, user-facing automation and has a track record of shipping scalable pipelines and fast client-side tools. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly focused and driven by building what he believes in, bringing both algorithmic depth and pragmatic product instincts to early-stage startups.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
W23, W23 at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Computer Science & Data Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Data Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (200)
webview10
bitbake10
windows10
winapi10
muon10
refactor10
sparkle10
cubing10
dmg10
javascript10
openlibrary10
snap10
linux10
software-update10
nsis10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hankbao/electron-notify
Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
Nice and simple notifications for Electron apps
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 9 months
electron-appselectronnotification-centernotificationsnotification
hankbao/hankbao.github.com
Feb 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:95 commits, 43 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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