Ming Yang
Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMing Yang is a founder and product-minded engineering leader with 11 years of experience building startups and growth-stage products across Cambridge and Silicon Valley. Currently CEO of a stealth startup after leading strategy and special projects as Chief of Staff at Modella AI and Bold, he combines operator instincts with hands-on engineering chops. His background spans product leadership roles at Homeward and founding Orchard, where he built marketplaces for underserved users, and earlier research and design work focused on affective computing and human-centered interfaces. An active open-source contributor, Ming has improved core TypeScript/Node tooling—fixing database and controller bugs in well-known projects like TypeORM and routing-controllers—demonstrating deep knowledge of backend systems and testing. He leverages a Computer Engineering degree and internships at Apple and Microsoft to bridge speech, vision, and product engineering in pragmatic, user-focused solutions. Notably, his long-standing interest in functional programming and emotion-aware interfaces surfaces in both his code contributions and product design instincts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
application-framework10
koajs10
postgresql10
expressjs10
controller10
routers10
app-framework10
databases10
typescript10
router10
orm10
typeorm10
typescript-types10
web-framework10
typescripts10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
typeorm/typeorm
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 28 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ming contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the TypeORM project. Their work included resolving issues related to JSON parsing in the PostgreSQL driver, fixing relation saving bugs, and implementing features such as the ability to change the PostgreSQL default schema name. The commits demonstrate an understanding of database interactions and the internal workings of the ORM. They also updated test cases to ensure functionality.
sqlserverionic-cordovasap-hanahanaorm
typestack/routing-controllers
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Create structured, declarative and beautifully organized class-based controllers with heavy decorators usage in Express / Koa using TypeScript and Routing Controllers Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Ming primarily focused on adding and testing new features related to controller action parameters within the routing-controllers framework. This involved implementing support for session and state objects in the Koa driver, and addressing corresponding adjustments in the Express driver. They also wrote test cases to ensure the proper functionality of these new parameter features, including testing for use and non-use of session middlewares. Furthermore, they fixed minor issues and added code comments to improve overall code quality.
decoratorsexpresstypescript-frameworkorganizedcontrollers
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