David Nie
Co-Founder at Polymorph (YC W26)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Nie is a product-minded software leader and founder with nine years building high-impact consumer and ads systems, most recently co-founding Polymorph to bring advanced personalization to everyone. At Meta he progressed from software engineer to staff and engineering manager, driving SMB ad-creation flows that generated $100M+ annually and architecting a $400M+ Ads Expansion Strategy that unlocked new advertisers across Messenger and WhatsApp. He blends hands-on engineering (PHP/Laravel roots) with program-level product strategy, running hundreds of experiments and launches to translate AI personalization into measurable revenue. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a Princeton CS degree with an MBA from Harvard Business School and an entrepreneurship certificate, signaling a rare mix of technical depth and founder ambition. Notably, he has repeatedly turned platform initiatives into new revenue streams and product orgs, demonstrating an appetite for building systems that scale both technically and commercially.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, Certificate, Adelson School of Entrepreneurship at Reichman UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Harvard Business SchoolB.S.E., Computer Science, B.S.E., Computer Science at Princeton University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
aws-cloudwatch10
pipe10
cloudwatch10
monolog9
inertiajs9
laravel9
logging8
javascript8
aws7
nodejs6
jekyll5
vue5
micro-framework5
twitter3
laravel-package3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dneey/handyNode
May 2018 - Jul 2020
A Micro Framework intended to help you write code in node js with express in a "Laravel like" fashion.
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 2 months
micro-frameworknode-jsjavascriptexpressnodejs
dneey/laravel-cloudwatch
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Easily pipe your Laravel logs to AWS CloudWatch.
Contributions:12 releases, 62 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
pipelaravel-logsloggingcloudwatchaws-cloudwatch
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