Chris Shi
Entrepreneur at Somewhere
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Shi is an entrepreneur and frontend-focused developer with over a decade founding and scaling deep tech startups, including three exits since 2018 and a 2023 acquisition by a global semiconductor leader. Based in San Francisco, he now builds next-generation input solutions for AI and XR, drawing on prior leadership at uSens where he commercialized gesture recognition and VR input/output technologies. He blends a physicist’s rigor—a Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy physics—with hands-on product and engineering execution, spanning frontend development and system-level sensing stacks. Known for turning complex research into market-ready products, he pairs strategic vision with the operational experience of guiding companies from R&D to acquisition.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Fudan UniversityPh.D., Theoretical high energy physics, Ph.D., Theoretical high energy physics at University of Miami
ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
christopherxxshi/christopherxxshi.github.io
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
christopherxxshi/Web_Programming
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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