Abby Chao
Executive In Residence at ASG
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbby Chao is an operator-turned-engineer with seven years of experience blending product, technical, and executive leadership from startups to strategy firms. Based in San Francisco, she has led and exited multiple logistics and fleet-management businesses as CEO and board member, including Record360 and PackageRoute, and earned a Best Exit award in 2024. Equally comfortable in the codebase, she’s shipped front-end work on developer tooling like Swell—improving UI reliability and testing for streaming APIs. Her background spans McKinsey strategy, Goldman Sachs finance, an MBA from Stanford GSB, and immersive full-stack training, giving her a rare mix of business rigor and hands-on engineering. Abby’s strength is turning complex operational problems into pragmatic product and engineering solutions that scale across customers and partners.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessFull-Stack Software Engineering Immersive, Full-Stack Software Engineering Immersive at CodesmithBS, Business Administration, BS, Business Administration at USC Marshall School of BusinessIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
react10
testing9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
api9
uid9
html7
css6
websocket6
server-sent-events6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Swell
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 29 PRs, 20 pushes in 23 days
Contributions summary:Abby's contributions primarily focused on reducing console logs and merging code from a "composer" branch, indicating a focus on frontend development within the project. Code changes were made to various components including "CookieEntryForm.jsx", "History.jsx", and others which strongly suggests the user was working on the user interface and functionality related to the API development tools. These updates seem to be related to testing, which is also a key part of the projects description.
grpcendpointsendpointswellmonitoring
abbychao/firefighter
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
"Choose-your-own-adventure" simulator for studying firefighting tactics. Built with React, Express, Node.js, MongoDB
Contributions:133 commits, 24 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 months
studyingbuilt-with-reactfirefightingexpresssimulator
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