Michael Chen
Founder at Hipacloud
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Top SchoolMichael Chen is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 19 years of experience building full-stack SaaS products, leading teams, and shaping product strategy from ideation to acquisition. He founded Hipacloud and Jinshuju, raised over $10M in venture funding, grew Hipacloud to 40 people and achieved an exit to ByteDance, where he then led a 230-person LowCode/aPaaS organization. Equally comfortable in code and boardroom, he combines deep technical chops (Rails, Java, React/Next.js, GraphQL) with hands-on product-market validation and Agile delivery. His background includes steering Fortune 500 technology decisions at ThoughtWorks and architecting a core banking system early in his career, reflecting rare experience across enterprise, consultancy, and startup contexts. Based in Chengdu, he is known for turning operational insights into customer-focused digital products that show rapid payback.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineer, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineer at Northwestern Polytechnic University (CN)
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (60)
javascript10
rich-text10
tiptap10
renderless-components10
prosemirror10
wysiwyg10
vue10
js10
react10
rich-text-editor10
editor9
enterprise-integration9
markdown9
java9
speech-to-text9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mechiland/xiyuweibo
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:53 commits in 12 days
mechiland/mechiland.github.com
May 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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