Lawrence Wang
CEO at Thyself.ai
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLawrence Wang is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building product-driven teams and shipping resilient web and mobile systems from the Bay Area. He currently leads Thyself.ai as CEO, applying voice AI to help people practice self-inquiry and emotional work, and previously served as CTO of Coordinape and Hylo where he scaled distributed teams and migrated full-stack platforms across web and native stacks. His background includes senior roles at MakerDAO and Lumosity, where he focused on developer experience, stablecoin interfaces, and frequent continuous deployments, demonstrating strong product-to-production delivery. Lawrence blends hands-on engineering (React/React Native, Node, Ruby, Postgres) with strategic coordination in decentralized organizations and early-stage startups. He has a track record of hiring and managing remote engineers across time zones and an interest in collective intelligence, reflected in his playful GitHub bio and leadership in DAO tooling. Columbia-educated in computer science, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with pragmatic technical execution.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Columbia University
Stackoverflow
10,372reputation
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39answers
31questions
loops
top-5%
npm
top-1%
Github Skills (200)
firefox10
api10
reducer10
karabiner10
selector10
portal10
nodejs10
staking10
borrow10
hosting10
macos-sierra10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
evo10
governance10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
levity/qmk_firmware
Feb 2020 - Jul 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
makerdao/currency
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Utilities for working with currency amounts
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 3 months
amountscurrencycurrency-convertercurrency-exchange-rates
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