Michael Hwang
Chief Executive Officer at Orca
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hwang is a product-minded technology leader with 14 years of experience building scalable systems, products, and teams across fintech, healthcare, robotics, and crypto. He joined Orca as the founding engineer and has since grown into the CEO role, driving the vision to build the best automated market maker on Solana while previously serving as CPO. His background spans hands-on engineering at Google, Verily, and BlackRock and product-led scaling at Spruce Health, giving him a rare blend of low-level engineering discipline and product strategy. Based in the United States, he pairs deep technical fluency with operator experience at every stage of a startup, and even pursues creative interests in music production—an unusual cross-disciplinary thread that informs his product instincts.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of MichiganMusic Production, Music Production at ICON CollectiveComputer Science, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
453reputation
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Github Skills (69)
anchor10
contract10
crypto10
rust10
orca10
typescript10
solana10
token-list10
metaplex10
blockchain10
ledger9
bitcoin9
api8
scale8
rest8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
orca-so/token-list
Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
The community maintained Solana token registry
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 5 months
tokensolanaanchorsolana-token
terranmoccasin/looseygoosey
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 1 year
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