I'm Jason Liang — a software engineer and founder. There's a pattern to my career I only noticed in hindsight: I keep finding myself drawn to problems that feel vague, undefined, even a little premature — and building anyway. A live wallpaper when the first Android phones shipped. A Stories-like scrapbook in 2014. Bite-sized mobile lessons for small business owners at Google, before anyone had a name for that. Video chat overlaid on mobile games at Bunch, before it was obvious people wanted it. And now at Mozi, helping friends actually meet up in real life, at a moment when everyone is starting to feel the cost of purely digital connection.

I didn't plan any of it that way. The uncertainty is the draw. I'm most energized when the category doesn't exist yet, the patterns aren't clear, and the only way forward is to build and find out. I care about the whole product — backend, frontend, architecture, the thing people feel when they open the app. Whatever it takes.

I've come to think these two things are the same instinct: being able to simulate something that doesn't exist yet, clearly enough to feel certain about it. It's why I get pulled toward early ideas — I can run the scenario in my head before the world has agreed it's real. And it's how I learn best. Not from reading about something, but from running it: a live demo, pair programming, watching someone who knows the thing and absorbing how they move through it. The brain has to emulate the experience for it to transfer. The more vivid the simulation, the more sticks.

Currently I'm a member of technical staff at Mozi, backed by Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter, founder of Blogger and Medium), featured in The New York Times, with a $6M seed round. Before that, I co-founded and served as CTO of Bunch — a group video chat platform for mobile gamers that raised $28M from General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Tencent, Riot Games, EA, Ubisoft, and Take-Two, and grew 50x during COVID.

Experience

Mozi — Member of Technical Staff (2023 – Present)

Engineer on a small team rethinking what it means to stay connected. Instead of feeds and follower counts, Mozi is built around helping friends actually meet up in real life — surfacing who's around, who's free, who you've been meaning to see. Backed by Ev Williams, $6M seed, covered by The New York Times.

Bunch — Co-Founder & CTO (2017 – 2023)

Co-founded Bunch and built the engineering from zero — architecture, an SDK that third-party mobile games could embed, iOS and Android apps, and an engineering team I hired and grew over five and a half years. Bunch was group video chat overlaid on mobile games — Discord for mobile gamers — at a moment when nobody had asked for that yet.

Raised $28M total across three rounds: a seed led by London Venture Partners and Founders Fund, a strategic round backed by Supercell, Tencent, and Riot Games, and a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst — with Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, and Krafton (PUBG) also joining. During COVID in 2020, Bunch grew 50x in monthly active users. Covered twice by TechCrunch.

Lighthouse Labs — iOS Instructor & Mentor (2017 – 2019)

Taught iOS development to career changers breaking into tech. Every class was a live demo — something I'd code from scratch in front of them, chunked to fit the session, designed so they could reproduce it themselves by the end. I learned as much about how people learn as I did about how to teach.

White North Tech Inc. — Founder (2015 – 2018)

Independent iOS and mobile consulting — design, architecture, and shipping for clients who needed someone to own the whole product, not just one slice of it.

Google — iOS App Developer (2015 – 2016)

Built iOS apps inside Google's mobile org, including a product that turned mobile growth advice into bite-sized lessons for small business owners — an early take on what eventually got named "mobile-first learning."

Game Changer Labs — Senior iOS Software Engineer (2014)

Senior iOS engineer on an early Stories-like scrapbook app — well before the format had a name everyone agreed on. Shipping it taught me how strange a product can feel when you're building ahead of the category.

Pivotal Labs — Senior Software Engineer (2011 – 2014)

Pivotal is where I learned to build software the right way — test-driven development, pair programming, extreme programming, a relentless focus on shipping clean code. It still shapes how I think about engineering. Pair programming in particular changed how I understand learning: watching another engineer think in real time — their hesitations, their instincts — transfers things no documentation can.

Education

University of Waterloo

What I'm good at

Building from 0 to 1 · iOS & React Native · Technical leadership · Hiring and growing engineering teams · Moving fast without breaking everything