James Yu
Founder at Sudowrite
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Yu is a founder and product leader with 15 years of experience building consumer and creator-facing technology, currently leading Sudowrite to reinvent the writing process through AI. He co-founded Parse, helped scale it through acquisition by Facebook, and later led product efforts at Facebook including the launch of the first FB-branded VR app. Earlier stints as an early engineer at Scribd and a design engineer at Dolby ground his work in audio and systems engineering, and he holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. A published speculative fiction writer with bylines in Uncanny Magazine and Terraform, he uniquely bridges storytelling and product design to shape compelling user experiences.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Cornell UniversityMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (70)
expressjs10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
nodejs10
mongodb10
parse10
graphql-api9
mbaas9
parse-platform9
parse-server9
parser9
file-storage9
jekyll9
graphql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jamesyu/gmailr
Feb 2011 - Aug 2012
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 6 months
apijavascriptgmailjavascript-api
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