Darren Hsu
COO, Co-Founder at Rubbrband
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Hsu is a product-focused technologist and startup leader with eight years of software engineering experience and a strong academic foundation from UC Berkeley in EECS. As COO and Co‑Founder of Rubbrband (YC W23), he builds AI-driven creative tools for artists, blending product strategy with hands‑on ML and backend engineering. His background includes internships and engineering roles at Amazon, Microsoft Advertising, and LogicMonitor, where he shipped services involving GraphQL, automated bidding algorithms, and Alexa music features. Darren has taught experimental ML design as a graduate student instructor, reflecting his ability to translate research into practical systems. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with collaborative leadership and a lifelong learning mindset evidenced by community service and sports outside work. Notably, he moves fluidly between startup strategy and low-level implementation, making him effective at turning creative AI ideas into shipped products.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyMission San Jose High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Chinese
Github Skills (67)
diffusion-models10
flax10
deep-learning10
image-generation10
audio10
jax10
diffusers10
text2image10
flux10
pytorch10
stable-diffusion10
ai9
lambda9
gradio9
react9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rubbrband/rubbrband
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Rapidly experiment with open-source machine learning models
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 77 pushes in 20 days
darhsu/Lung-Imaging
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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