John Ling
Cofounder CEO at Canopy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ling is a founder-CEO and software engineer with nine years of experience building AI-enabled healthcare, enterprise, and fintech products from early-stage startups to platform-level roles. A Dartmouth CS and art history graduate, he blends technical rigor with a design-minded perspective, having co-founded multiple startups including a YC company (Encarte) and now Meridian and Canopy. He spent time at Scale AI helping power models used by leading labs and enterprises, and earlier sourced investments at DN Capital, giving him both operator and investor fluency. Hands-on in back-end engineering and open-source (contributions to Yogstation’s keybinding API), he prefers shipping pragmatic systems that scale. Based in New York, he balances product work with rock climbing and a taste for interdisciplinary problem solving that draws on both code and aesthetics.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Taipei American SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and Art History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and Art History at Dartmouth CollegeTuck Business Bridge Program, Tuck Business Bridge Program at The Tuck School of Business at DartmouthDeerfield AcademyNational Yang Ming University
Github Skills (3)
game-development10
keybindings10
beyond-compare10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
yogstation13/Yogstation
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Discord: https://discord.gg/yogs13 Forums: https://forums.yogstation.net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 reviews, 1846 commits, 1508 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:John made various fixes and improvements to the custom keybindings within the Yogstation game. Their contributions include modifying preference settings to allow for custom keybinding and creating an API for adding new keybinds. They also focused on correcting bugs related to the existing functionality and also included improvements related to mentor roles.
2d-gamespacestation13gamess13yogstation
ThatLing/yogstation
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Yogstation13's master code source.
Contributions:158 pushes, 111 branches in 2 months
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