# Muchao T.

> Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/muchao

Builder. AI & Fintech. Crypto Native.
@Coinbase: Learning rewards (set the industry standard of crypto education), DeFi, Earn, Smart Wallet, Social 
@Uber: Growth, Map, ConvAI 
Twitter @muchaot

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ SoFi
Jan 2026 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Banking products

### Founding Product & Design Lead @ Nexus
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
Building a verifiable blockchain and consumer app ecosystem for the AI era. 
Backed by Lightspeed and Pantera.

### Product Designer @ Coinbase
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024
Design Lead @Coinbase Wallet
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Web3 activation
Meaningful experience to help people start web3 journey with web3 wallet, the semi-custodial wallet using MPC in Coinbase app
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Earn(now Learning rewards)
Easiest place to learn about crypto, and earn some along the way.
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Protocol (now Base)
Web3 Initiatives like airdrop, DID, and web3 infra service. 
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Onboarding
Unified onboarding experience across Coinbase products

### Founding designer @ Mywa
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Commerce stack on WhatsApp to help scale SMBs in Africa and South East Asia. Grew from zero to 20k+ business customers.

### Product Designer @ Uber
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Customer Identity Platform - Create a unified and secure Uber identity that enables Uber products and partners to grow efficiently and at scale. Focused on product vision, strategy, and MVP.
Maps - Improved diagnosable trip from 70% to 90%, with a focus on information design and data viz.
ConvAI - 1000+ of eng hours saved since rollout in August, with a focus on conversational AI and tool design. Visualized backend actions to GUI.

### UX Designer @ Narwhal Digital
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
- Coca-cola internal website redesign analysis and ideation
Create decks for pitches with a focus on UX auditing, competitive analysis, and industry research
- QA of responsive websites and iOS apps
- UX and Strategy
Wireframes, information architectures and annotations of FDOC(floridacitrus.org)
Documentation of modules and templates on websites

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta
I assist in teaching CS8803-Mobile Application&Services about digital product development, especially UX/UI best practices and UCD process.

### Product Designer @ Uber
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led Driver Profile Redesign

### Design mentor (Remote) @ HeChuang Consulting
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
- Mentees have got 20+ grad school offers from top HCI/UX/Design programs in CMU, Pratt, Georgia Tech, Syracuse, SCAD, etc.
- Instruct students to build up their UX/Product design portfolios
- Teach and lead students through UCD practices

### Industrial Design Intern @ Jia Workshop Co
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed peripheral commodities for the classical animation films created by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. During the one month intensive internship, I designed more than 10 products in which 6 were selected to the final round of presentation. 

I worked in a team I guided by a senior designer. Through teamwork I learned a lot about how to communicate effectively in a team, and how to support team members to keep making progress.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design
Jiangnan University

### Industrial Design
Lahti Institute of Design

### Wuxi No.1 high school


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13