Badminton
Warriors
The intelligent multi-sided SaaS platform modernizing the racket sports ecosystem. Connect, book, and train like an Olympian.
Architected by Experts
Bridging the gap between scalable cloud infrastructure, enterprise-grade machine learning, and elite domain mastery.
Yongkang Zhao
Co-Founder & Lead Architect
A Principal Associate, Data Scientist at Capital One and former Senior ML Engineer at TIFIN and former Research Engineer at Megagon Labs specializing in Multi-Agent LLMs and Conversational AI. Yongkang brings extensive enterprise AWS architecture experience (Control Tower, VPC, IAM)—having previously deployed scalable, RAG-enabled AI agents to thousands of users at Georgia Tech. A passionate badminton player, he now merges advanced ML research with robust cloud-native infrastructure to architect the Badminton Warriors ecosystem.
Howard Bach
World Champion & 3x Olympian
As a 2005 World Champion and 3-time U.S. Olympian, Howard provides the elite domain expertise that forms our competitive moat. He translates the operational realities of professional facilities and top-tier coaches into precise platform logic, guiding our AI matchmaking algorithms and professional tournament architecture.
Congmin Qiu
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
As a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Congmin brings over six years of experience building high-growth, large-scale internet systems. He leverages his deep full-stack and data engineering expertise to architect Badminton Warriors' distributed backend, integrating machine-learning-powered features and ensuring seamless, global platform scalability.
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