Ron Yeh
CEO & Founder at GameLeaf
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRon Yeh is a PhD-trained human-computer interaction researcher turned serial founder who builds delightful, educational games and expressive interfaces from Palo Alto. As CEO of GameLeaf and squarepoet he combines deep HCI and graphics expertise with hands-on engineering across TypeScript, Godot, Swift, Kotlin and Go to ship mobile-first music and game experiences. His work at Cooliris led product adoption at major publishers and demonstrated an ability to bridge research, design and production engineering at scale. An active mentor and educator—he has taught at Stanford and advised UC Berkeley scholars—he pairs academic rigor with practical coaching for startups and indie developers. Ron also contributes to open-source projects like VexFlow, improving music notation tooling via React and TypeScript, reflecting a rare blend of music tech and UI craftsmanship. Off the keyboard he’s a world traveler, Shakespearean actor and youth coach, which informs a creative, people-centered leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
0xfe/vexflow
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
A JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 247 reviews, 594 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ron was primarily focused on refactoring and updating the tests within the VexFlow library. Their commits involve renaming and reorganizing test files related to Factory, GhostNote, and Style functionality. They also updated the run.ts file, likely to incorporate the reorganized tests. The user's work involved the implementation of UI components with React and TypeScript.
javascriptrendering
ronyeh/phaser
Apr 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 10 months
gamehtml5game-framework2d-gamegames
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