Shawn Gong
Chief Product Officer at TRMNL4
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Gong is a product leader and growth strategist with nine years of experience scaling consumer products and monetization engines across global markets. As Chief Product Officer at QUITTR and former head of monetization and international growth roles at Tinder, Grindr, GOAT, and Route, he has repeatedly driven multimillion-dollar revenue lifts through pricing, behavioral design, and viral acquisition loops. He blends hands-on product craft with data-driven ML interventions—most notably deploying dynamic pricing that generated $30M+ incremental ARR—and a knack for unbundling features into new SKUs that unlock dormant segments. Shawn also contributes to open-source mobile UI tooling, improving MessageKit’s accessory view and keyboard behaviors, reflecting his attention to product UX details. He advises startups and university leadership on product-market fit and product‑led growth while teaching frameworks that marry behavioral science with growth mechanics. Based in Los Angeles, he combines international scaling experience with an engineering and business education (USC, Quantic) to execute pragmatic, retention-friendly revenue strategies.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Engineering Management, Master's Degree, Engineering Management at University of Southern CaliforniaExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Sichuan UniversityReforge
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
uid10
page-layout10
swift10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
layout10
messagekit9
chat8
messaging7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MessageKit/MessageKit
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 commits, 1 comment in 24 days
Contributions summary:Shawn's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the UI and layout aspects of the messageKit framework. They have implemented features to add customizable accessory views to message cells, including size and padding configurations. Furthermore, the user's commits include changes to the layout attributes and calculations, ensuring accurate positioning of the accessory views within the message cells, mimicking the functionality of avatar views and addressing keyboard behavior. The user has also included changes related to keyboard inset and scrolling behavior of the collection view.
chatswiftiosmessagingmessenger
hyouuu/MoView
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
MoView by hyouuu, made for Pendo, based on SPUserResizableView. It is a movable, resizable view, with special attention to be used with UIImage, thus providing Save, Copy and Delete menu options.
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year
movablependouiimagemenuoptions
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