Summary
Xiao Wu (Ling) is a founder and senior software engineer with 15 years in software and 11 years of hands-on product leadership across startups in Canada and China. As CEO of White Matrix he built ChainIDE, the world’s largest cloud-based multichain IDE used in 185+ countries and recommended on Ethereum.org, and he co-founded WORLD3 to deploy autonomous Web3 agents backed by Microsoft for Startups. He blends deep CS training (MSc/BSc, University of Alberta) with practical entrepreneurship, shipping platforms that have compiled over 8.5 million smart contracts. A recognized community builder, Xiao has co-organized 100+ Web3 developer events worldwide and holds academic and industry leadership roles, including Co-PI at UoW Dubai and Vice Director of CUHK(SZ)–White Matrix Metaverse Lab. Active in IEEE governance and conference programming across the Middle East, he pairs technical product vision with ecosystem-scale influence. Outside core engineering he explores indie game dev, speculative SF writing, and decentralized app design, reflecting a creative approach to building developer tools and experiences.
11 years of coding experience
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Alberta
English, Chinese