Henry Mao
Founder at Smithery
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Mao is a founder and AI engineer with 14 years of experience building products at the intersection of machine learning and full-stack web infrastructure. He co-founded Jenni.ai, scaling it to $7M+ ARR, 300K MAU and a successful 2024 exit, and now runs Smithery to orchestrate the next wave of agentic internet platforms. Hands-on across research and production, he has published EMNLP research, built GPU ML infra (EKS/GKE, PyTorch, ONNX), and engineered prompt pipelines for GPT-4/Claude while optimizing models via ensembling and knowledge distillation. His background spans product, architecture and growth—from earlier game-engine and mobile releases with 1M+ downloads to large-scale analytics and retraining pipelines at Amazon/A9. Based in Singapore, he combines startup scaling chops with deep technical expertise in Transformer-based systems and practical deployment.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School, High School at The Independent Schools Foundation Academy
Github Skills (15)
javas10
minecraft10
apim10
debug10
minecraft-forge10
minecraft-fabric10
api10
game-development10
java10
buildx8
build28
build-runner8
buildpack8
buildr8
buildah8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
calclavia/Triton-Transformer
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 21 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
calclavia/tal-asrd
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Code for the Paper Speech Recognition and Multi-Speaker Diarization of Long Conversations
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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