Ling Mao
Senior Lead Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLing Mao is a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Vancouver with nine years of professional experience and a strong foundation in Unity-powered mobile games and tools. Having led gameplay systems, designer-facing editors, and modular tooling at multiple studios, Ling built and open-sourced uBlockly—a Unity reimplementation of Google Blockly—demonstrating a knack for bridging visual programming and game UX. Over the last few years they transitioned into frontend web development with a focus on React, growing toward full-stack capabilities while driving frontend excellence at The Trade Desk. Comfortable leading teams and shipping production systems, Ling combines hands-on engineering with a background in interactive entertainment from Trinity College Dublin. Colleagues describe them as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns designer needs into reusable developer tools and polished user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Interactive Entertainment Technology, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Interactive Entertainment Technology, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
google-blockly10
blockly10
reimplementation10
excel9
csv9
json9
lua8
xlsx8
csharp8
golang7
jekyll-theme2
jekyll2
perfect1
triangular1
ruler1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imagicbell/ublockly
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
reimplementation of google blockly for Unity
Contributions:45 commits, 5 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years
unityreimplementationgoogle-blocklyblockly
imagicbell/piano-app
May 2019 - Sep 2021
A tiny project that aims to help learn to play piano.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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