Phillip Wang
Product at Gather
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPhillip Wang is a product-focused technologist and founder with 11 years of experience building AI-infused consumer and collaboration products, most recently moving from co‑founder and CEO of Gather to a product role at Figma while serving on Gather’s board. He blends deep research roots from Carnegie Mellon—where he helped release the MineRL dataset and led ML and theoretical projects—with hands-on startup leadership that raised $77M and scaled a virtual office used by over 10k teams daily. Comfortable toggling between code, research, and strategy, Phillip has practical expertise in reinforcement learning, computer vision, and NLP from internships at Microsoft, Cruise, and Facebook. Known for getting obsessively into problems, he pairs a founder’s product intuition with academic rigor to ship ambitious, usable experiences that bridge remote collaboration and AI.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
School of Computer Science, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityNewport High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
cross-domain2
object-detection1
pytorch1
computer-vision1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
lwwang/Two_branch_network
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
lwwang/Places_CNDS_model
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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