Isaac Mao
Chief Architect at Neo Carbone
Kansas, Canada
Summary
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SeniorIsaac Mao is a multidisciplinary chief architect and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building consumer and enterprise software, blending HCI-driven design with social computing research. He has led architecture and product efforts at Intel, Tangram, Aivvy, and currently steers the media platform here.news, while founding the Musicoin Foundation and serving on boards like The Tor Project. Isaac helped spark China’s blogging movement by co-founding CNBlog.org and later shaping the Social Brain Foundation, and he has guided Creative Commons’ China efforts and advised Global Voices via Berkman. His work sits at the intersection of technology, civic media, and learning—applying usability rigor to systems that enable grassroots expression and emergent democracy. A Berkman Klein fellow with CS and MBA training from Shanghai Jiaotong University, he divides his time between research, nonprofit advising, and product leadership, with an affinity for surprising philosophical takes (e.g., “Time is not a reality”) that inform his approach to design and communities.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (200)
end-to-end-encryption10
gist10
geth10
censorship-circumvention10
github10
python10
windows10
pgp10
chat10
windows-media-player10
p2p10
streaming10
markdown10
couchdb10
wallet10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Musicoin/go-musicoin
Nov 2016 - Nov 2020
:link: Go-version of Musicoin blockchain wallet and consensus
Contributions:16 releases, 1 review, 81 commits in 4 years 1 month
blockchainconsensusgo
Musicoin/musicoin.github.io
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
static site
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
static-site
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