Donovan So
Founding Engineer at Fintool.com [ChatGPT+EDGAR]
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan So is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building AI-driven products and developer-facing platforms, currently working on Excel Copilot at Microsoft. He previously served as a founding engineer at Fintool—where he built AI agents for financial professionals—and co-founded BricksAI (YC S22), an LLM observability and access-control startup. Donovan’s background spans fintech production systems at Credit Suisse, developer productivity tooling, and front-end revamps that measurably improved user engagement. He combines startup grit and product sensibility with enterprise delivery experience, and brings additional interests in UI/UX and playful curiosity about cute animals that inform a user-first design mindset.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMasters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS), Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS) at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (141)
cordova-plugin10
svg10
charts10
api10
ycombinator10
isomorphic10
tailwindcss10
d3js10
tailwind10
react10
radix9
golang9
azure9
recommender9
postgresql9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
donfour/simple-react-clipboard
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years 1 month
donfour/donfour.github.io
Aug 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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