Howard Chi
Co-founder & CEO at Wren AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Chi is a technology entrepreneur and AI/data specialist with 12 years of experience building systems that turn data into actionable insights. As co-founder and CEO of Canner and Wren AI in Palo Alto, he focuses on self-service BI, Text-to-SQL, and AI-driven database technologies that simplify analytics for product teams. He pairs product leadership with hands-on engineering—from front-end data visualizations (contributions to Formidable’s Victory) to backend Go tooling that improves HTTP request handling. Howard’s work bridges open-source and startup worlds, reflecting a deep practical knowledge of data systems and developer ergonomics. Notably, he launched ReactD3 early in his career, signaling a long-standing interest in making complex data easier to explore.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, industrial information and management, Bachelor's degree, industrial information and management at 國立成功大學
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
data-visualizations10
http10
javascript10
react-components10
data-visualization10
go10
data-visualisation10
react10
react-component10
testing9
charts9
reflection9
reflections9
api-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/victory
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 1 comment, 3 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Howard primarily contributed to the development of React components for data visualization. Their work involved adding new features to existing error bar components, including the implementation of helper functions. They also created a demo component to showcase and test the functionality of the error bar. Furthermore, the user addressed and resolved a bug related to asymmetric error bars.
chartsreactvisualizationscomposabledata-visualization
franela/goreq
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Minimal and simple request library for Go language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Howard primarily focused on adding functionality to the Go request library. Their commits introduced the ability to parse parameters for GET requests using reflection and added a testing framework for the project. These changes indicate an effort to enhance the library's flexibility and functionality, particularly related to handling HTTP requests and processing data within the request. This includes adding support for query parameters in GET requests.
golanggo-languagerequest-libraryrequest
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