Steven Tey is a founder and startup CTO with six years of full-stack experience, currently building Dub.co, a modern link attribution platform used by teams at Vercel, Twilio and Perplexity. Previously a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, he blends product-minded engineering with developer relations to ship features across Next.js, authentication, and multi-tenant routing. Hands-on contributions span front-end UI polish (components, modals, responsive photo booths) to back-end API and tenancy improvements in open-source repos like vercel/examples and dubinc/dub. He also created practical developer starters and demos (Next.js + Postgres, Mongo starters) and prototypes AI-driven UX in projects like an age-transformation app and a Notion-style editor. Based in Seattle and educated in Computer Science at Minerva, he pairs rapid iteration and UX focus with production-ready platform thinking.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Minerva University
Open-source link attribution platform. Loved by modern marketing teams like Twilio, Perplexity, Vercel, and Huberman Labs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:578 reviews, 616 commits, 1715 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on back-end development within the `dubinc/dub` repository, as demonstrated by the modifications to the API routes. The user addressed the handling of a `tenantId`, updated an export script, merged changes from the main branch, updated a link creation script, added try-catch error handling, and improved the implementation of the link for a bitly crawling API. The contributions suggest improvements in API endpoints and the data processing pipeline.
An opinionated collection of components, hooks, and utilities for your Next.js project.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 39 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the front-end components and user interface of the project. Their commits show significant work on UI elements, modal design, tooltip implementations, and overall layout enhancements. The user also addressed z-index issues and made minor adjustments to component functionalities, likely to improve user experience and visual consistency across the application. Furthermore, they were involved in updating the project's metadata and incorporating new features such as a Google sign-in button and redirect functionality.
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