Rosanna Yau
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRosanna Yau is a designer-turned-founder with 13 years building products and communities for creators, currently serving as Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at BackerKit in San Francisco. She combines interaction design training (MFA, California College of the Arts) with hands-on startup experience to craft end-to-end crowdfunding tools that prioritize creator support, community growth, and sustainable revenue. Rosanna cut her teeth founding niche ventures—like MiniLivestock promoting entomophagy—and co-founding Diaspora, bringing an uncommon comfort with unconventional ideas and distributed communities. Since 2012 she has scaled BackerKit from direct creator support to launching a full crowdfunding platform, blending design empathy with product and operational grit. Her background teaching, advising early-stage projects, and running design at mission-driven organizations gives her a rare mix of creative leadership and practical execution.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Communication Design, BS Communication Design at University of California, DavisY CombinatorMFA Interaction Design, MFA Interaction Design at California College of the Arts
Github Skills (1)
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
BackerKit/litabot
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 14 days
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