Daniel Chen
Building at Rox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Chen is a seasoned founder and product-driven engineering leader with 11 years of experience building SaaS and AI-first companies in the Bay Area. He co-founded and led Hero.app through acquisition, served in investing roles at Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, and now runs Quilt, a Sequoia-backed startup building AI knowledge assistants for GTM teams. His background blends hands-on product engineering with operator and investor perspectives, giving him a rare ability to translate customer workflows into scalable product and go-to-market motions. Prior roles include Head of Engineering at People.ai and a current founding role at Rox, reflecting a pattern of launching and scaling revenue-focused developer tools. Caltech-trained in computer science and business economics, he pairs technical depth with commercial intuition. Outside the headline roles, he’s known for iterating quickly on product-market fit and operational playbooks that make enterprise systems like Salesforce actually useful.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (78)
ruby10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
htmlwidgets10
html10
r-package10
nodejs10
css10
shiny9
social-network-analysis9
openid9
d3js9
charts8
r8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dchen71/datasciencecoursera
Dec 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:184 commits, 101 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
dchen71/dchen71.github.io
Oct 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
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