Tracy Chou
Founder & CEO at Project Include
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTracy Chou is a founder, engineer, and advocate who has spent 12+ years building product and infrastructure at consumer tech companies and startups, and now leads Block Party as CEO, creating tools to combat online harassment. A former early engineer and tech lead at Quora and Pinterest, she brings hands-on experience across feeds, recommendations, ads, APIs, web, and growth systems while also advising startups and VCs on engineering, product, and culture. Tracy helped catalyze transparency around diversity in tech with a widely cited crowdsourced GitHub repository tracking women in engineering and has continued that work through Project Include and public advocacy. She has served as a technical consultant with the U.S. Digital Service and holds MS and BS degrees from Stanford, blending rigorous technical training with policy-minded engagement. Currently affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and a Shorenstein Fellow, she operates at the intersection of technology, public policy, and social impact.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bing Overseas Studies Program, Bing Overseas Studies Program at Peking UniversitySt. Francis High SchoolMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
google-sheets-api10
python10
api9
error-handling9
apim9
oauth7
argparse7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
triketora/women-in-software-eng
Oct 2013 - Aug 2019
Crowdsourced repository of women in software engineering stats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:433 commits, 159 PRs, 216 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tracy's primary contributions focused on modifying and enhancing the `update_script.py` file, which appears to be central to the repository's functionality. The user implemented features such as sorting spreadsheet rows, adding a parameter for the spreadsheet key, and integrating error handling and retry mechanisms when interacting with the Google Sheets API. Additionally, the user fixed an oauth2client.tools call and cleaned up the code syntax. These changes improve the script's functionality, reliability, and usability in managing spreadsheet data.
engineeringstatswomencrowdsourced
triketora/7on7-svs-code
May 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
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