David Hu
General Partner at Open Heart Capital
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hu is an engineering leader, former hedge fund founder, and General Partner at Open Heart Capital with 15 years of experience building scalable data systems and user-focused web products. He blends deep full-stack engineering roots—from early internships at Google and pivotal product work at Khan Academy—to data engineering expertise, having built a cost-effective BigQuery + Airflow warehouse for a resource-constrained non-profit. A founder of high-traffic consumer and education products (uwflow.com, contributions to Khan Academy and Learning Equality), he’s equally comfortable shipping front-end UX polish and backend analytics pipelines. His career bridges social impact and crypto quantitative investing, and he brings a rare mix of product intuition, open-source contribution, and applied machine learning experience that measurably boosted learning outcomes early in his career.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Western Technical-Commercial SchoolBSE, Software Engineering, BSE, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
google-analytics10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
handlebars9
develop9
ux-design9
user-experience9
backbone8
backbonejs8
content-management8
css8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/khan-exercises
Oct 2011 - Sep 2014
A (deprecated) framework for building exercises to work with Khan Academy.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the Khan Academy exercises framework. Their contributions involved removing UI elements related to the "streak" model and replacing them with components reflecting the proficiency model. The user also worked on adding visual enhancements, such as a glow effect to the progress bar, and modifying the related video section for better user guidance. Additionally, the user updated the exercise UI to incorporate the new milestones property for summative challenges.
khan-academy
learningequality/studio
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Content curation tools for Kolibri
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience within the "learningequality/studio" repository. They implemented features such as adding analytics tracking to pages, incorporating clipboard docking, and modifying the display of content within the clipboard. The user also improved channel interaction by supporting command/control-click functionality to open channels in new tabs, and addressed code organization through refactoring and added improved styling.
content-curationphpcurationkolibrisdg-4
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