David Kaneda
Founder & CEO at Cosy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Kaneda is a founder and product-focused design leader with 16 years building elegant mobile and web experiences, currently CEO of Cosy where he uses AI to simplify writing. He co-founded Spoke and served as CCO, shaping product vision, brand, and design teams through a successful $28M-funded growth phase, and has held UX roles at Google and as Creative Director at Sencha. A hands-on designer-developer, he contributed core UI/UX improvements to the jQTouch mobile framework—demonstrating deep front-end craftsmanship beyond typical executive duties. David blends creative direction, engineering fluency, and startup experience, and is equally comfortable advising founders or diving into code and open-source projects. Based in San Francisco, he prefers products that favor simplicity and tangible user benefit, and is open to co-founder or executive design roles alongside selective freelance work.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Art Institute of Philadelphia
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
safari10
css10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
html10
mobile-safari10
ui-design8
mobile-development8
safari-extension6
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mobile6
spellchecking6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
senchalabs/jQTouch
Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
Create powerful mobile apps with just HTML, CSS, and Zepto.js (or jQuery).
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:216 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the jQTouch framework. They contributed to the core functionality of the framework by improving the appearance and functionality of several components. Specific changes included button styling, toolbar background enhancements, and the removal of legacy code. Additionally, the user implemented improvements to history management and made corrections in the demos.
cssjquerymobile-applicationzepto
bucketsio/buckets.io
Jun 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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