Summary
Monson Shao is a versatile co-founder and full-stack engineer with 14 years’ experience building cloud-native products, web apps and infrastructure. A former Ph.D. candidate in theoretical physics, he combines deep analytical rigor with hands-on skills in React, Node.js and cloud architecture to design end-to-end customer-facing systems and payment/order workflows. He led OpenStack product architecture and managed IaaS/PaaS roadmaps at UnitedStack, and later built Elething’s entire WeChat design-and-order webapp while running operations, marketing and OEM partnerships. Comfortable switching between strategic product decisions and low-level technical execution, he’s practiced in multinational corporate cultures and early-stage startup scrappiness. Notably, his background in kernel QA and container testing at Red Hat gives him uncommon operational insight into systems reliability and automated testing.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. DROPOUT, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Ph.D. DROPOUT, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Sun Yat-Sen University
Chinese, Chinese, English