Peter Shih is a seasoned engineering leader and repeat technical founder with 14 years of experience building products from 0→1 and scaling teams as VP of Engineering at Clarium Health. A YC S12 alum who founded and sold an e-commerce/crowdfunding platform to Indiegogo, he blends hands-on mobile engineering (notably iOS UI work like a Pinterest-style collection view) with product-minded operational leadership. He has a track record of speeding web performance and SEO through pragmatic front-end refactors and automation, and has consulted for high-profile brands to modernize their user experiences. Based in Palo Alto with an ECE degree from UC San Diego, he pairs deep implementation experience with founder instincts and a knack for shipping polished consumer-facing interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Henry M. Gunn High School
Make Something People Want, Make Something People Want at Y Combinator
A simple open source implementation of a Pinterest Pinboard for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:32 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the development of an iOS application, focusing on implementing features and refining the user interface. Their work included refactoring code, styling elements, and cleaning up the codebase. The commits demonstrate the creation of a custom collection view and its associated cells, which are core UI components for displaying content in a Pinterest-like format. The contributions show a focus on layout management and view handling within the iOS environment.
Contributions:452 commits, 95 pushes, 30 tags in 11 months
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