About
👨💻 Hi there, I’m Sunny Gao (高阳) 👋
My Chinese name is 高阳 GaoYang — in Chinese, the family name comes first. “Yang” represents sunlight and positive energy, while “Gao” means high. Together, my name evokes the image of the sun rising high. That’s why I chose the English name Sunny.
💻 About Me
- Who I am: Founder & CEO of MindMux.ai | Co-founder of SegmentFault (Sifou) | Initiator of ProjectBrain.md | Initiator of the Apache Answer project
- Focus: AI entrepreneur, builder, developer community & ecosystem expert
- Mission: Gathering collective wisdom, driving technological progress.
- Currently: 🚀 Building MindMux.ai all-in — reshaping knowledge work and collective-wisdom collaboration with AI.
- 🔗 Learn more: visit sunshineg.github.io
🛠️ Projects I’ve Built and Contributed To
- 🚀 MindMux.ai: Founder & CEO. Combining collective wisdom with AI to build a next-generation knowledge collaboration product.
- 🧠 ProjectBrain.md: Initiator. Advocating the open-source knowledge management philosophy of “files as the brain”, keeping knowledge in versionable Markdown.
- ✨ AI & Collective Wisdom: Published the OpenSource.Win Manifesto, actively advocating the open-source spirit in the AI era.
- 💡 Apache Answer: A Q&A platform that originated from the Sifou team and was open-sourced to help organizations build knowledge communities. It has successfully graduated from the Apache Software Foundation as a Top-Level Project (TLP)!
- 🤝 C14Z: Founded Crazy GenerationZ (C14Z) in 2013, an organization connecting young entrepreneurs.
- 🌍 SegmentFault (Sifou): As co-founder, built China’s leading developer Q&A community, bringing together millions of Chinese developers.
📬 Contact Me
Compared to instant messaging, I prefer async communication. Feel free to send me a short self-introduction anytime! You can kick off our conversation via LinkedIn, this blog, Twitter, or GitHub as your “social card”.