Guangyao is a talented engineer and visionary leader who has a track record of growing teams and companies. Tess Ventures is proud to work with Guangyao and the Social Future team and look forward to their future successes.
Guangyao is the former CTO of Holla Group, a social platform for international expats, where he independently built and managed a team of 50 people, developed self-reliant architectures and algorithms including random matching system and content recommendation system. He also led the innovative reconstruction of high-concurrent microservices and led the team to increase DAU from 200k to 1 million, achieving the number 1 social ranking in the US App Store for a week.
Guangyao was previously the Chief Data Scientist of Funplus where he was deeply involved in the production of the global hits "King of Avalon" and "Era of Musketeers".
Guangyao holds an MBA from Peking University and a BS in information and computer science from China University of Mining & Technology.
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