# Michael D.

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Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaeld2

Product creator, engineer, filmmaker

https://michael-yuanhao-deng.vercel.app/

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TidalWave
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, CA
One of the first engineers - built out the infra and established AI ops foundation to support agentic mortgage origination workflows

### Video Creator @ LemonTree Media
Jan 2018 – Present | New York, United States
It all began from a film editing summer camp in middle school...
Collaborated with clients including SoftwareONE, New Balance, FEI, Olay, China Central TV, Sina. 

Fiction & non-fiction shorts directed (2M+ views): Family Under the Roof, Under the Windhorse, and Fred's Homecoming. Work published on: Catalina Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, CICFF, AAHSFF (Best Drama Nominee), Scout Film Festival (Best Documentary Winner, Best Drama Nominee), Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Gold and Silver Medals)

### Software Engineer @ CertiK
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Some projects including: trie-based search engine, bot attack rate-limiting infra, LLM explanation service, Interactive Transaction Tracing Graph, feature-flag infra, front-end analytics modules (100+ components).

Was on both Skynet (analytics) and Skyinsights (compliance and risk tracing) teams, won company award for outstanding contributor in March 2024

### Product @ Mastercard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
Launched Push Provisioning Remember Me feature to 150K users. Built a proof of concept for open banking and Finicity API features.

### Creative Director @ Adolescent
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, CA
Signed as a director for the agency after winning at a film festival

### Product @ ByteDance
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Worked on Lark SaaS ecosystem apps including docs, sheets, video chat. Customer interviews, competitive product analysis, product launch process improvements.

### PM @ Black Panther Capital
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
first exposed to PM responsibilities

### Private Equity Analyst @ Black Panther Capital
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
thinking products and companies in philosophical terms and... learning how tiktok was built


## Education
### Bachelor's degree (Dean's List) in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Summa Cum Laude
Woodberry Forest School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelyuanhaodeng

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Last updated: 2026-04-10