Yijia Chen
Co-Founder And CEO at Curio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYijia Chen is a San Francisco-based software founder and executive with 8 years of engineering leadership. As Co-Founder and CEO of Curio, he is building next-generation real-money competitive games and esport infrastructure, with Duper as the flagship title and an 8.7M seed round led by Bain Capital. He also leads Curio Research to develop on-chain games and massive social user-generated content. Previously, as Backend Lead at Treelab, he steered V2 backend work that boosted core data tooling performance beyond Airtable’s scale, and he cofounded Quit Labs, a mobile smoking-cessation platform. A UC Berkeley alum with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, he began his career as a core developer for the UC Berkeley Division of Data Sciences on Query.jl and Simplify.jl. He blends entrepreneurial drive with deep technical craft to turn ambitious gaming and infrastructure ideas into scalable products.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Winchester Thurston School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
dyno2
data-visualization1
visualization1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yijiaceline/CSF-project
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:9 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
MandyZhangxy/DATS6450-final-project
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 15 days
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