Steven Pu
Founder
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Pu is a founder and product-minded engineer with nine years of experience building AI-enabled products, films, and hospitality experiences from Palo Alto. He co-founded Lyla, a commerce-by-DM startup acquired in late 2025, and now leads a new venture focused on combining machine learning and human-centered interfaces. His background spans applied multimodal LLM research at Stanford Medicine and AI storytelling work with AWS, reflecting a rare mix of rigorous research and creative production. Steven’s creative projects include widely viewed films and hospitality collaborations, signaling an ability to craft compelling user experiences across mediums. He holds both BS and MS degrees from Stanford, blending symbolic systems thinking with advanced computer science. Curious by nature—self-described “interest seeker”—he often connects disparate domains to build novel products that resonate culturally and technically.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Germantown Friends SchoolMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (51)
visualization9
charts9
svg9
data-visualization8
canvas8
plugin8
apache8
browser8
animated8
echarts8
charting8
javascript8
scrollview7
nodejs7
css7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qiupo/myImages
Nov 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:91 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
qiupo/qiupo.github.io
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
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