Michael Chiang is a Canadian founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools and product-driven infrastructure. He co-founded Kitematic (acquired by Docker) and now leads product and engineering efforts at Ollama and Infra, blending hands-on implementation with early-stage customer discovery. His open-source contributions to the popular ollama project show practical cross-stack work—adding UI improvements, backend examples, and demo integrations for Llama-family models. Comfortable shipping production desktop and cloud tooling, he pairs electrical engineering training from the University of Waterloo with firmware-to-product experience, a background that informs his systems-minded approach to AI and infrastructure products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Honors Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Honors Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 46 reviews, 138 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael made contributions focused on both the user interface and backend examples within the ollama repository. The user updated the Discord invite link in the header file. They also added a demo video to a privateGPT example, integrating changes and updating Python files demonstrating work across both frontend and backend aspects of the project. These changes demonstrate a full stack approach.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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