Dave Yen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Yen is a San Francisco–based founder and product leader with 10 years of experience building developer platforms, consumer products, and early-stage companies. As Co-Founder and GP at Orange Collective he backs next‑gen YC founders, drawing on product leadership at Shopify where he helped launch Hydrogen and contributed front-end improvements to the popular hydrogen-v1 demo storefront. He founded consumer brand Cheekies and co-founded Roomblocker, and previously led product at Rigetti, helping bring some of the world’s first quantum computers online via Quantum Cloud Services. With an MS in Information Sciences from the University of Michigan and YC founder training, he blends hands-on UI/UX coding experience with investor-level pattern recognition across developer tooling and marketplace businesses.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
javascripts10
userinterface10
shopify-hydrogen10
react10
user-experience9
userexperience9
exp9
seo7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/hydrogen-v1
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
React-based framework for building dynamic, Shopify-powered custom storefronts.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the demo store. They made significant changes to account pages, including the order details and history, login and recover forms, and address book components. They implemented responsive design changes, improved button styling, and updated hero image responsiveness. Additionally, they added SEO user agents.
reactpolarisecommerceshopify
davecyen/cheekies-dawn
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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