Chenyu L
Founder at Approach One
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolChenyu L is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building product-focused systems from startup prototypes to production at scale in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded Telescope (acquired by Chime), led engineering at Chime as a Staff Engineer, and served as Founder/CTO of Abel (YC W24), demonstrating a blend of product intuition and deep technical execution. His work spans mobile, backend, and optimization-driven financial planning engines using convex optimization techniques, plus leadership of high-performing teams that shipped highly rated consumer apps. Comfortable founding companies and shipping core infrastructure, he now leads Approach One to compound expertise with intelligence. Collected across startups and larger firms like Yahoo and SAP, his background pairs an MS in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon with a pragmatic, impact-first engineering ethos. Outside work he favors joyful, lightweight coding—seeking to make software that feels effortless to build and use.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Software Engineering at Harbin Institute of TechnologyMaster of Information Systems Management, Master of Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
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Github contributions (4)
Chen0901/Weber
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Chen0901/GrowUpSnake
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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