Michael Chiang
Co-Founder at Ollama
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Chiang is a Canadian founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools and product-driven infrastructure. He co-founded Kitematic (acquired by Docker) and now leads product and engineering efforts at Ollama and Infra, blending hands-on implementation with early-stage customer discovery. His open-source contributions to the popular ollama project show practical cross-stack work—adding UI improvements, backend examples, and demo integrations for Llama-family models. Comfortable shipping production desktop and cloud tooling, he pairs electrical engineering training from the University of Waterloo with firmware-to-product experience, a background that informs his systems-minded approach to AI and infrastructure products.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Honors Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science, Honors Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (13)
llama10
go10
ollama10
python10
llm10
golang9
wordpress6
docker6
php6
documentation6
mysql6
react5
github4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ollama/ollama
Jul 2023 - Feb 2026
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 52 reviews, 140 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael made contributions focused on both the user interface and backend examples within the ollama repository. The user updated the Discord invite link in the header file. They also added a demo video to a privateGPT example, integrating changes and updating Python files demonstrating work across both frontend and backend aspects of the project. These changes demonstrate a full stack approach.
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mchiang0610/mchiang0610.github.io
Aug 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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