Ming Zhu
Senior Manager, Investments & Partnerships (APAC) at Nourish Ventures
Singapore
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Top SchoolMing Zhu is a Singapore-based operator and investor with 12 years of cross-border experience building early-stage food, agri and climate tech ventures and corporate venture strategy. China-born and U.S.-educated with an MBA from Harvard, he now leads Nourish Ventures’ APAC investments and partnerships, having built regional presence and deal pipeline from zero. His background spans VC investing, strategy consulting at Innosight, and hands-on commercial development—incl. negotiating a US$40M JV with Emirates Flight Catering while at Crop One. A contributor to open-source PHP projects, Ming has improved routing and documentation in widely used frameworks, reflecting a pragmatic engineering curiosity that complements his commercial skillset. He combines analytic rigor from econometrics and equity research with a creative, music-informed perspective on collaboration and cultural nuance.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA with High Honors, Bachelor of Arts - BA with High Honors at Wesleyan UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Harvard Business School
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (10)
url-routing10
web-framework10
cakephp10
php10
chinese-simplified10
restructuredtext10
thinkphp10
documentation10
architectures7
architecture7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/docs
Oct 2014 - Aug 2016
CakePHP CookBook
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:83 commits, 30 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ming primarily contributed to the documentation of the CakePHP framework. The commits involved the translation of documentation, specifically starting a Simplified Chinese translation and updating existing documentation files. The contributions include adding and updating various documentation files, aligning table cell boundaries and re-wrapping text to improve readability in the translated content.
cakephp
top-think/thinkphp
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
ThinkPHP3.2 ——基于PHP5的简单快速的面向对象的PHP框架
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ming focused on fixing and improving the routing mechanisms within the ThinkPHP framework. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to dynamic route matching, ensuring the correct order of route definitions, and handling cases where routing keys were numeric. They modified core routing classes and implemented changes to ensure proper configuration and utilization of routing rules. The user's work enhanced the stability and reliability of the routing functionality within the framework.
php5restfulphpthinkphp3php7
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