Ricky Wong
Lead Product Manager at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRicky Wong is a product and technical leader with 11 years of experience building deep-tech consumer products and founding startups, currently leading product for Veo at Google DeepMind. He started his career as a founding member of Google’s Ads Data Warehouse team, scaled large distributed systems, and later moved into product roles at TikTok/ByteDance where he launched generative AI features, shipped avatars and Video Stickers, and filed seven patents. An MBA from INSEAD with MS/BS in Computer Science from UCSB by age 21, Ricky combines engineering depth (Android development background) with investor instincts as an active angel with a 10x portfolio. He has a track record of building teams from scratch, driving research-to-launch paths at the intersection of ML and media, and delivering measurable cost and reliability improvements in infrastructure. Notably, he’s moved between hands-on engineering, VC diligence, and founder roles—bringing a rare blend of product intuition, technical execution, and startup investor perspective.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Gunn High SchoolMBA, MBA at INSEADMS Computer Science Distributed Systems, MS Computer Science Distributed Systems at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese
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Github Skills (78)
sticky10
android10
modular9
android-webview9
ui-components9
material-components9
material-ui9
custom-view9
plugin9
scrollview9
material-design9
cookie9
webview8
kotlin8
textview8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yrickwong/Angel
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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