Kevin Schaich
Founder, CEO at Darkgrade (YC F24)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Schaich is a founder and software leader with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and startups, currently CEO of Darkgrade (YC F24). He combines hands-on full‑stack development—evidenced by his open-source Mintable finance app and Plaid integration—with enterprise-scale analytics expertise honed at Palantir, where his PySpark and ML work delivered multi-million dollar impact. Kevin has repeatedly been a founding engineer or co-founder across health, supply chain, and consumer finance ventures, bringing product instincts to technical execution. He excels at turning complex data pipelines and geospatial problems into practical business outcomes and interactive visualizations. Based in New York, he pairs startup grit with a track record of shipping scalable systems and open-source tooling. A less obvious strength is his ability to bridge frontline engineering with executive strategy, moving from prototype code to revenue-driving deployments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Founder, Founder at Y CombinatorBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Cornell UniversityHigh School, High School at Norwin High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
53reputation
3kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
react10
plaid9
google-sheets-api9
api8
nodejs8
apim8
csv-import8
html6
authentication6
decorator6
jquery6
flask6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kevinschaich/mintable
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
🍃 Automate your personal finances – for free, with no ads, and no data collection.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 8 reviews, 326 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on developing the frontend and backend features of the finance tracking application. They implemented features to map transactions to spreadsheet cells, integrated CSV import capabilities, and also integrated the Plaid API to fetch account data. They added functionality to fetch and display account balances and manage account linking and removal. The user also made various refactorings to improve the structure and maintainability of the codebase, including enhancements to the user interface for account setup.
trackerbudget-managementmintablefinancesfinance-management
kevinschaich/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:97 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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