Nova Saint
CTO & Founding Engineer at RealRoots
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNova Saint is a CTO and founding engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-focused web platforms and operational workflows, now leading RealRoots to help women forge lasting, in-person friendships across U.S. cities. She blends hands-on engineering with product and founding experience—previously scaling automation for residential solar at Palmetto and delivering civic tech at 211 LA County. Her background spans early-stage startups and leadership roles (VP Engineering, co-founder), giving her a strong mix of technical delivery, team-building, and founder empathy. Based in San Francisco, she is comfortable shipping full-stack systems that connect users through curated experiences rather than just features. An implied through-line in her career is turning complex, real-world problems (energy, civic services, community-building) into reliable, user-centered software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Information Technology, Associate's degree Information Technology at Temasek PolytechnicBachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Wollongong
Chinese, Burmese, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
710reputation
1.4mreached
8answers
7questions
Github Skills (21)
jquery-plugin8
pip6
fabricjs6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
sailsjs6
amazon-s36
psycopg6
asp-net-mvc6
python6
material-design-lite6
javascript4
wysiwyg4
rich-text-editor4
jquery3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saintach/saintach.github.io
Aug 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
Softhatch/r-shiny-app
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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