Jason Shum
Co-founder CEO at Closer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Shum is a founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building product-led startups and technology teams across Asia, North America, and South America. As Co-founder and CEO of Closer, he’s scaling an AI-first future-of-work startup from the ground up while hiring remotely and bridging multicultural markets. His background spans early-stage product engineering (Aurora Solar employee #5), software delivery at scale (Amobee), and cross-border M&A and strategy from his time at EY-Parthenon. He brings hands-on technical depth from a Brown CS degree combined with operator instincts honed at Entrepreneur First and NGO tech leadership, making him equally comfortable shipping code and negotiating deals. Notably, he has a track record of launching impact-driven tech in emerging markets and coordinating distributed teams across continents.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc, Computer Science, B. Sc, Computer Science at Brown University
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (139)
linux9
shell9
powershell9
netcore9
command-line9
database8
windows8
to-do8
datadog8
atom-plugin8
expert8
visualization8
macos8
agent8
android8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sarapeletz/zanhealth
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:195 commits in 6 months
jshum/blog
Oct 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:119 commits, 19 issues in 1 year 7 months
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