Delian Asparouhov
Partner at Varda Space Industries
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDelian Asparouhov is a venture partner and founder with 13 years of experience building and investing across space, fintech, healthcaretech, consumer hardware, and media. As co-founder and president of Varda Space Industries and now a Partner at Founders Fund, he blends hands-on startup operator experience with venture diligence and portfolio support. He began as an engineer—contributing to notable open-source mobile tooling like the original declarative react-native-router-flux—and has moved between product, GM, and leadership roles that span YC startups to large venture firms. Delian is comfortable shipping product-level fixes and navigating boardrooms, a rare combo that helps early companies scale technical teams and go-to-market. Based in Los Angeles, he brings an unconventional background (MIT CS dropout) and a reputation for tackling frontier problems—from orbital manufacturing to new consumer businesses. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly pragmatic, equally at home debugging navigation edge cases or negotiating complex fund investments.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout Computer Science, Dropout Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
mobile-development10
react-native10
user-interface9
debug8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aksonov/react-native-router-flux
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
The first declarative React Native router
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Delian primarily contributed to the `react-native-router-flux` library by enhancing its functionality and addressing reported issues. Their work included allowing for the passing of props like `renderTitle`, `iconStyle`, and `textStyle`, and correcting logic related to navigation. Further changes involved improving the user experience and fixing edge cases related to popping navigation stacks and tab navigation. The user's changes focused on improving the component's flexibility and resolving specific usability problems.
reactreact-nativedeclarativereact-native-routerrouter
zebulgar/zebulgar.github.io
Feb 2019 - Nov 2024
Delian's personal site
Contributions:2 PRs, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
react
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