Yuan Gao
Chief Technology Officer And Co-Founder at Worldwide Webb
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYuan Gao is a serial founder and CTO with 14 years of experience building AI-driven products across computer vision, industrial robotics, drones and cloud-native systems. A University of Oxford MEng graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus, he has led engineering from hardware (camera PCBs, autopilots) to large-scale cloud processing pipelines at companies including Mavrx, Hummingbird and Worldwide Webb. He blends hands-on embedded and backend work—evidenced by contributions integrating Google Cloud Datastore into the open-source haste-server—with strategic product pivots that scaled teams and tech in ag-tech and Web3 gaming. A former McLaren contract engineer and Forbes Technology Council member, he is comfortable shipping across electronics, ML models and distributed systems while keeping teams lean and outcome-focused.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Abingdon SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng) Engineering Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Engineering Science at University of Oxford
Github Skills (5)
nodejs10
javascript10
back-end-development10
google-cloud-datastore10
data-storage9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
toptal/haste-server
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
open source pastebin written in node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Yuan focused on implementing and maintaining the Google Cloud Datastore integration for the haste-server project. Their contributions involved creating a document store using the Google Datastore, implementing `set` and `get` methods for data storage and retrieval, and handling data expiration. The user addressed bugs, updated the code to use `Date.now()`, and made several iterations of changes regarding data expiration logic and `null` values. The user refactored the code to use the google-datastore naming convention.
node-jspastebindocker
meseta/gmdunder
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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