Jimmy Hsu
Founder at Sightware
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJimmy Hsu is a serial founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack products, developer tooling, and security-conscious infrastructure from startups to enterprise scale. Based in San Francisco, he’s led technical teams at WeWork and Pandora, co-founded AI and fintech ventures, and recently launched Sightware to deliver affordable defense and monitoring systems for security and industrial markets. Technically fluent across Node.js, Golang, React, AWS, and scalable data stores, he pairs hands-on engineering with product strategy and fundraising experience. Jimmy has a track record of shipping high-impact features under tight deadlines—such as Pandora’s desktop payments and WeWork’s unified auth—while also launching and exiting startups like Astro Financial. A practical tinkerer with a playful GitHub tagline ("1 Doge = 1 Doge"), he blends entrepreneurship, systems-level engineering, and a focus on real-world operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Amador Valley High School
Chinese, Japanese, French, javascript
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
web-application10
windows10
javascript10
linux10
js10
rocket10
ghost10
macos10
nodejs10
mongodb10
odm10
modeling10
cms9
asynchronous9
audience9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jimmyhsu/HAB-Challenge
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 12 days
jimmyhsu/jimmyhsu.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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