Justin Ip
Founder & CEO at Kick Health
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Ip is a founder and CEO with 15 years of product and engineering leadership experience, currently scaling Kick Health, a telemedicine startup that prescribes fast-acting interventions for performance anxiety. He previously served as Head of Product and first engineering hire at AllTrails, helping grow it into a top-ranked travel app with 30M users and a $75M exit, and has a long track record of early-stage engineering and startup roles. Justin blends hands-on software craftsmanship with product intuition—building teams and shipping consumer-facing mobile and web products across health, travel, and enterprise domains. He’s an active angel investor with exits and portfolio companies spanning healthcare, fintech, space, and climate tech, demonstrating a knack for spotting category-defining founders. A Duke computer science and economics graduate who studied journalism and marketing at Northwestern’s Lab Accelerator, he pairs technical rigor with storytelling and go-to-market savvy. Notably, he’s iterated through both successful scale-ups and a clinical startup failure, bringing pragmatic lessons in product-market fit and operational resilience.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Economics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Economics at Duke UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Lab Accelerator Medill School of Journalism and Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), The Lab Accelerator Medill School of Journalism and Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) at Northwestern UniversityHigh School, High School at Hong Kong International School
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Github Skills (108)
animated10
react-native-webview10
golang10
database10
cross-platform10
deep-linking10
sendbird10
go10
android10
ios10
react-native10
react10
scroll-position9
app-links9
sdk9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ippy04/messengerbot
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
golangapimessenger-platformfacebook-messenger-platformchat
ippy04/sendbird
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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