Minghao Tan is Co-Founder and CTO at Donkey, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native trading company that connects US importers directly with Chinese factories, cutting out costly middlemen and trading company markups.

Minghao brings a strong technical and data engineering background, specializing in building systems that parse complex datasets and extract actionable intelligence from large-scale raw records.

Minghao architected Donkey's core data platform, which reads public customs filings to identify real manufacturers versus shell companies and freight forwarders, a proprietary capability that powers the entire business.

At Donkey, Minghao leads the technology stack end-to-end, from ingesting raw customs filings to building the software infrastructure that runs factory-direct trade operations with on-the-floor quality control before payment is released.

Donkey, backed by Y Combinator, is disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar global trade industry by giving US importers transparent, factory-direct pricing and eliminating the hidden markups charged by traditional trading intermediaries.