John Qiao
CTO & Co-Founder at AC Fan - ACNH Community
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Qiao is a serial entrepreneur and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building consumer-facing platforms and AI products, currently serving as CTO and Co‑Founder of OpenArt.AI in San Jose. A former Googler who helped incubate and scale Area 120 projects like Tangi, he blends hands-on engineering in LLMs, speech, and large-scale systems with product-driven startup instincts. He founded multiple communities and education startups—from a global Animal Crossing network to gamified language learning—demonstrating a knack for designing engaging social experiences. Comfortable shifting between research-grade models and production engineering, he focuses on new paradigms for creative expression with generative AI. Notably, his career threads show a pattern of turning hobbyist communities into high-activity platforms that drive product vision and user growth.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Game & Contents, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Game & Contents at Woosuk University
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (46)
flux10
pytorch9
user-guide9
audio9
deep-learning8
image-generation8
stable-diffusion8
diffusion-models8
diffusers8
gitbook7
text2image7
jax6
viewcontroller6
wordpress-plugin6
wordpress6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenArt-AI/ComfyUI-Manager
Nov 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
qiaoshun8888/AlgorithmPractices
Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:344 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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