Andrew Mao
Co-founder CEO at StartX.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Mao is a co-founder and CEO who builds learning-powered products and companies. He currently leads Parsnip, a personalized learning engine for cooking that helps people level up their skills, which has earned a 4.9-star rating on iOS and Android and attracted early backers including Luis von Ahn, Severin Hacker, Rana el Kaliouby, and Mark Miller. With 13 years of experience across academia, research, and product leadership—spanning CTRL-labs, Microsoft Research, and StartX’s AI cohort—he combines deep technical expertise with a talent for turning complex ideas into user-friendly solutions. He is an active open-source contributor, notably to the Meteor JavaScript app platform, where he improved bug fixes, documentation, and reliability. Based in New York, he continues to pursue scalable educational technology that accelerates how people learn.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Harvard University
English, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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117questions
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
vuejs10
mongodb-database10
javascripts10
meteor10
mongodb10
console9
ubuntu9
algorithm9
matlab9
datetime9
java9
python9
char9
math9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
meteor/meteor
Jul 2013 - Dec 2017
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 78 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Meteor JavaScript app platform by addressing bugs and updating documentation. They made checks for the `where` argument in `tools/packages.js`, updated dependencies for the `madewith` package, and enhanced the documentation regarding the use of fields in find cursors. Furthermore, the user fixed an issue related to `localStorage` accessibility.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-user-status
Jun 2013 - Oct 2019
Track user connection state and inactivity in Meteor.
Contributions:83 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 years 5 months
meteorutility-modconnectionmeteor-clientimpress
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