Isaac Mao
Chief Architect at Here.news
Kansas, Canada
Summary
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SeniorIsaac Mao is a multidisciplinary chief architect and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building consumer and enterprise software, blending HCI-driven design with social computing research. He has led architecture and product efforts at Intel, Tangram, Aivvy, and currently steers the media platform here.news, while founding the Musicoin Foundation and serving on boards like The Tor Project. Isaac helped spark China’s blogging movement by co-founding CNBlog.org and later shaping the Social Brain Foundation, and he has guided Creative Commons’ China efforts and advised Global Voices via Berkman. His work sits at the intersection of technology, civic media, and learning—applying usability rigor to systems that enable grassroots expression and emergent democracy. A Berkman Klein fellow with CS and MBA training from Shanghai Jiaotong University, he divides his time between research, nonprofit advising, and product leadership, with an affinity for surprising philosophical takes (e.g., “Time is not a reality”) that inform his approach to design and communities.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
1answer
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Github Skills (200)
gist10
to-do10
chat10
couchdb10
client-library10
keybase10
text-editing10
cordova10
stackedit10
zendesk10
geth10
origami10
python10
windows-media-player10
wallet10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Musicoin/musicoin.github.io
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
static-sitestatic-site-generator
Musicoin/orbiter
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 83 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
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