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
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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)
magichourhq/magic-hour-go
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Go library for the Magic Hour API.
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 53 PRs in 4 months
magic-hour-sdk
davidhu2000/use-better-effect
Dec 2022 - Aug 2024
A wrapper around `React.useEffect` but with improved API
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 8 months
apireactimproveduseeffectreact-native
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