Dave Yen
Co-Founder & GP at Orange Collective
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Yen is a seasoned founder and product leader with 11 years of experience building startups, developer-facing products, and mission-driven ventures from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and GP at Orange Collective and former product lead at Shopify, he helped launch Hydrogen, contributing front-end improvements to a high-profile open-source storefront framework. He previously founded Cheekies, scaling a U.S.-based supply chain to manufacture and donate hundreds of thousands of masks during COVID, and led early quantum product efforts at Rigetti to bring quantum cloud services online. His background blends technical product execution, hands-on UI work, and fundraising/operating experience across hospitality, e-commerce, and deep tech. Known for shipping pragmatic, user-focused solutions, he pairs a University of Michigan information sciences education with YC founder experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Summer 2015, Summer 2015 at Y CombinatorMaster's Degree Information Sciences, Master's Degree Information Sciences at University of Michigan
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
shopify-hydrogen10
react10
user-experience9
exp9
seo7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/hydrogen-v1
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
React-based framework for building dynamic, Shopify-powered custom storefronts.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the demo store. They made significant changes to account pages, including the order details and history, login and recover forms, and address book components. They implemented responsive design changes, improved button styling, and updated hero image responsiveness. Additionally, they added SEO user agents.
reactpolarisecommerceshopify
davecyen/cheekies-dawn
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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