Dylan Zhang (Hiring)

Dylan Zhang (Hiring)

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CEO of Pond — building a 10x faster & better alternative to Upwork & Fiverr, powered by AI.
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  • Pond
    Founder & CEO
    Pond
    Mar 2023 - Current (3 years 7 months)
    Raised $7.5M in a seed round led by top-tier VCs and 30+ angels including the father of GPT. We solve every problem that you don't know how or don't want to solve with a community of AI.

    We have worked with Google Cloud, Lovable, ElevenLabs, Ethereum Foundation and more: https://joinpond.ai/
  • Gitcoin
    Kernel Fellow
    Gitcoin
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2022 (4 months)
    Kernel Block 7.
  • The RSA The royal society for arts manufactures and commerce
    Fellow
    The RSA The royal society for arts manufactures and commerce
    Jun 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 7 months)
    The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. Fellows are committed to inspiring better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change. An integral part of the RSA in creating a better future. Fellows champion new ideas, drive social change, deliver practical solutions and support the RSA mission.
  • WednesDAO
    Founder
    WednesDAO
    May 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 8 months)
    A DAO connects crypto founders around the world granted by Ethereum Foundation.
  • Spanning Labs
    Founding Member
    Spanning Labs
    Mar 2022 - Mar 2023 (1 year 1 month)
    An interoperability project raised $8 million backed by Galaxy Digital, Signal Fire, Foundation Capital, co-founders of Near, Polygon, Libra and ex-CTO of Coinbase. I was the sole business member managing all business activities, including strategy, market research, business development, and more. The project pivoted to AI after I left.
  • Huawei
    Strategic Account Manager
    Huawei
    Dec 2019 - Oct 2021 (1 year 11 months)
    First job after college. Responsible for a $130M annual revenue target within my first year after graduation.

    Worked in the company’s most strategic B2B division, managing enterprise client engagements and solution delivery.

    Collaborated with leading Chinese banks to design and implement complex enterprise IT solutions, including cloud infrastructure, GPU/TPU computing, data center architecture, database systems, and server deployments.
  • Royal Academy of Engineering
    Management Consulting Intern
    Royal Academy of Engineering
    Jul 2018 - Aug 2018 (2 months)
    Dispatched to Tanzania by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering to provide business advisory services to a WHO award-winning startup in order to prevent its bankruptcy.
  • UCL Rover Team
    Founding Member & Autonomous System Lead
    UCL Rover Team
    Jun 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year 1 month)
    Represented the UK at the European Rover Challenge.
  • MyMiniFactory
    Sales & Business Development Intern
    MyMiniFactory
    Jun 2017 - Jul 2017 (2 months)
    MyMiniFactory is a file 3D printable object-sharing platform where 3D printers can share their design and ideas.

    The platform has collaborated with brands such as the Warner Bros Group — Turner's Adventure Time, Rovio's Angry Birds, Autodesk, Google and the Exxon Group.
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    Sales Intern
    SpaceCot
    Mar 2016 - Jul 2016 (5 months)
    Award-winning baby product startup.
  • Panalpina
    Logistic Intern
    Panalpina
    Jun 2014
    One of the largest logistics companies in the world.
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  • Saïd Business School University of Oxford
    Oxford Executive Programme: Blockchain Strategy
    Saïd Business School University of Oxford
    Sep 2021 - Oct 2021 (2 months)
    Oxford University Blockchain Strategy Program leverages the expertise of Oxford University faculty and industry leaders to provide an understanding of this transformative technology. Designed for busy executives, the program offers knowledge-rich, highly relevant content and frameworks to help participants incorporate blockchain technology into business strategy in a sustainable and inclusive manner.
  • Central Saint Martins University of The Arts London
    Master of Arts - MA, Art Philosophy
    Central Saint Martins University of The Arts London
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year 1 month)
    For the 5th consecutive year, CSM has been ranked 2nd in the QS World University Rankings in art.

    Researching Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Thiel and Fractal Geometries. Interviewed with Emeritus Professor Martin Kemp FBA at Oxford, the most renowned art historian, one of the authenticators of Salvator Mundi - the latest Leonardo da Vinci's painting and a columnist of Nature magazine.
  • The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
    Summer School, Acting
    The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
    Jan 2018
  • UCL
    Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering
    UCL
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year 1 month)
    UCL is the 7th ranked university in the world. Represented the UK to attend a European competition in 2018 during my Masters.

    We built a Mars rover that represented the UK to compete at the University Rover Challenge.
  • UCL
    Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
    UCL
    Sep 2014 - Jun 2017 (2 years 10 months)
    UCL remains ranked in the top 10 globally for decades according to QS World University Rankings
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    UCL Business Game
    Mar 2017 - Current (9 years 7 months)
  • H
    How to Change the World
    Jun 2016 - Current (10 years 4 months)
  • M
    Monitoring Composite Materials in Wind Turbines
    Jun 2016 - Apr 2017 (11 months)
    Using MATLAB to build a Finite Element mathematical plate model of composite materials and analyse by ABAQUS (a Finite Element Analysis software) to find defective damage in the plate
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