Summary
Samuel San is a product manager and former engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer and developer-facing products across Apple, Meta, Coinbase, Checkout.com, and startups. He co-founded RecipeUI (Y Combinator S23), an open-source Postman alternative that trended #1 on Hacker News and earned over 1,300 GitHub stars by simplifying API integrations with AI prediction and TypeScript checks. At Meta and Apple he bridged engineering and program strategy for large-scale AI/ML initiatives, while at Coinbase and Checkout.com he shipped product efforts that boosted NFT discovery and enabled crypto payouts across regulated markets. Comfortable both leading cross-functional GTM programs and shipping technical integrations (Plaid, Chainalysis), he combines hands-on engineering roots with product strategy fluency. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for turning complex technical constraints—like on-device ML memory limits and wallet on-ramps—into pragmatic product wins.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Richmond Secondary School
Y Combinator
Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering (Co-op), Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering (Co-op) at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese, Chinese, Spanish