David Hu
Founder at magichourhq
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Hu is a founder and seasoned software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of hands-on experience building product-focused web applications. As Co-founder and CTO of MagicHour, he blends strategic leadership with active engineering, shipping features and maintaining core code. He contributes to front-end open source—most notably enhancing the popular react-spinners repo with new loaders and rendering/styling fixes—showing attention to polish and developer experience. Comfortable across the stack, he leans into UI components and performance-sensitive front-end work that improves perceived speed. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs startup-level product instincts with a contributor’s discipline for clean, maintainable components.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
front-end-development10
react10
git9
ruby9
typescript7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
html6
ruby-on-rails6
homebrew6
yarnpkg6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
davidhu2000/react-spinners
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
A collection of loading spinner components for react
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 10 reviews, 670 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the development of React loading spinner components, including a new "clock-loader". They implemented new features and also fixed multiple issues. Code changes focused on updating and maintaining the core components. These updates involved improvements to rendering and styling of the components.
reactloaderspinnersprogressbarreact-component
magichourhq/docs
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Documentation for Magic Hour API
Contributions:4 reviews, 173 PRs, 233 pushes in 1 year 4 months
magic-hourmagic-hour-sdk
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