Yishan Wong
CEO at Terraformation Inc.
Kawaihae, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYishan Wong is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling product, infrastructure, and teams across companies from PayPal and Facebook to Reddit and Terraformation. As CEO of Terraformation he now applies engineering rigor to global forest restoration, blending technical product leadership with climate-focused operational scaling from his base in Kawaihae, Hawaii. He has a track record of rapid growth and cost reduction at consumer-scale platforms and brings hands-on experience in payments, advertising, and backend systems from roles at Square and PayPal. An active open-source contributor, he has improved critical Python tooling for MediaWiki (pywikibot), demonstrating attention to API integration and data-processing edge cases. Comfortable founding and directing initiatives—he also co-founded an invite-only coworking community—Yishan pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep systems-level engineering judgment. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (5)
mediawiki10
python10
api-client10
wikidata9
wikimedia9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/pywikibot
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Yishan primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the pywikibot library, which interfaces with the MediaWiki API. Their work involved modifying the `site.py` and `echo.py` modules to correct issues related to notifications parsing and building from JSON. Furthermore, the user optimized page depth counting and made adjustments to remove outdated information from the `login.py` file. The user demonstrated proficiency in working with the library's API interaction and data processing logic.
pythonsubmitwikidatawikipediawikia
enterprisey/jawb
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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