Dave Fontenot
Founder at HF0 Residency
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Fontenot is a founder and freelance iOS engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building communities, startups, and early-stage companies. He launched MHacks—the world’s largest hackathon—and has since scaled hackathon ecosystems and founded programs that connect early engineers to breakout companies. As a former General Partner at Backend Capital he wrote early checks into multiple unicorns, and today runs HF0 Residency to let repeat founders focus purely on building. His background blends product engineering, community design, and venture instincts, informed by immersive mindfulness retreats in monasteries across Asia and California. Known for turning events into enduring networks, he quietly pairs hands-on iOS craftsmanship with systems-level thinking about how to accelerate innovation at scale.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout Computer Science, Dropout Computer Science at University of Michigan
Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
reddit10
marketing10
javascript9
webapp9
lisp-interpreter9
nextjs9
community-management9
react9
photosphere9
lisp9
makefile9
swift8
plot8
r8
bash8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hellyeah/movesio
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:65 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
built-inmovesyeomanangular
hellyeah/hackmatch
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:249 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
discoverreactcssjavascripttouch
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