Ellen Hui
Co-Founder And CEO at thorntale (YC W24)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllen Hui is a restless software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable, maintainable distributed systems and cluster orchestration across environments from tens to tens of thousands of nodes. As Co-Founder and CEO of thorntale (YC W24) and formerly a senior engineer at Mux and SRE at Cruise, she combines hands-on infrastructure expertise with product-led startup leadership. She brings deep knowledge of WebRTC/video streaming and networking, plus practical SRE perspectives on reliability and developer experience. Ellen also focuses on scaling human processes—driving inclusive culture, cross-team collaboration, and developer efficiency alongside technical solutions. Based in San Francisco and educated at Harvey Mudd College, she thrives on projects that intersect low-level systems thinking with real-world user and team impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Head-Royce SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
English, Chinese, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
webcam10
audio10
sctp9
srtp9
voip9
signaling9
webrtc9
live-video9
rtp9
streaming9
webassembly8
api8
golang8
ortc7
bare7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ellenfkh/.dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 7 months
ellenfkh/hadoop
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:61 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 3 months
apachebig-datahadoopjavaapache-hadoop
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