Summary
Mingda Lei is a serial founder and technologist with nine years of experience building decentralized finance platforms, currently serving as Co-Founder & CEO of JOJO after leading DODO as Co-Founder & CEO. He combines hands-on development and product management with deep quantitative research skills, having built market-making systems and smart contracts at DDEX and applied quantitative stock research during an internship at Innovation Works. Trained as a PhD candidate in Space Science and Technology with a double bachelor including economics from Peking University, he brings a rare mix of rigorous academic analysis and product-first entrepreneurship. Mingda is fluent in bridging research, protocol design, and production-grade engineering to ship resilient exchange infrastructure. He favors data-driven decisions and has repeatedly moved from prototype to live trading environments, reflecting both technical depth and operational grit. Based in Canada, he blends cross-disciplinary thinking with a founder’s appetite for risk and continuous iteration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Space Science and Technology, PhD Candidate Space Science and Technology at Peking University