# Michael Huang > Engineer at Retool Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelhuang3 First and foremost, I care about how to make a project or business succeed, what the goals ought to be and how to achieve them. Next, I help with brand, design, messaging, and web development. In other words, I specialize in turning ideas into viable products. I have a special focus on consumer product sites (Joby, Adopted, Kenu) and education (DemiDec, The World Scholar's Cup). I make things throughout the entire stack, from front-end stylesheets and Javascript (including single page apps), to the underlying database driven web apps and frameworks. My startups include Foodia, where we developed an easy to use score to help people decide between what to eat, Ballotcraft, where we made political participation into a fun, addictive game, and Unveil, where we let you have your wedding your way by taking on the drudge work. ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ Retool Jan 2022 – Present ### Senior Product Manager @ Standard AI Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Senior Engineer @ Standard AI Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, CA We're re-humanizing retail. So instead of the cashier asking you "did you find everything okay today?", there will be no checkout and that person will instead be able to help you find everything okay today. We're also hiring, so if this sounds interesting, please reach out! We're looking for vision, machine learning, as well as web devs and designers. Thanks! ### Founder and CTO @ Unveil Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Founder. Lead developer and designer ### Founder and CTO @ Ballotcraft Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Ballotcraft is like fantasy football, but for politics. ### Freelance Web Developer @ Michael Huang, Design Jan 2007 – Jan 2015 Elegant, friendly, usable sites. I've covered everything from design and development to deployment. ### Web Designer @ DemiDec Resources Jan 2005 – Jan 2015 Design, develop, maintain, and re-design websites for the World Scholar's Cup and DemiDec. ### Design Director @ Kenu Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA Founding employee, helped refine Kenu's first product, the Highline, an iPhone safety leash, with key design details, usability refinements, and a name. My time at Kenu consisted of travel to photo shoots in snowy Tahoe, factory visits where I worked closely with their engineering and sourcing staff to make sure our product got the attention it needed, designing (and revising) the packaging and point of sales displays for our product, setting up e-commerce from choosing Shopify to setting up label printers, and the other thousand tiny tasks any new company performs. Marketing, product development, website, e-commerce. ### Design Farmer @ Foodia Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, CA Founding employee, helped design and refine a product to provide a new, simple, and useful way to connect people with what they eat. As an early employee, I churned out concepts, mockups, html wireframes, and in the process picked up backend programming using Django. By the end of my experience, I had gone from mostly design and front-end development to full stack developer. ### Web & Creative Designer @ Joby Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco, CA In charge of redesigning and implementing www.joby.com, ideated, designed and implemented newsletter campaigns, online advertisement, social networking features, etc. Also known as Design Ninja. ### Web Designer, Researcher @ Persuasive Technology Lab Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Created fun, user-focused web site for lab project BuddyBuzz. Redesign of lab web site. ## Education ### BS in Symbolic Systems, Human Computer Interaction Stanford University ### BS in Symbolic Systems Peking University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikhuang - Portfolio: http://www.mikhuang.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelhuang3 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelhuang3/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11