Trina Chiasson
Advisor, Board Of Directors at Ovipost
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrina Chiasson is a founder-turned-advisor and product leader with 14 years building data-driven products, interactive visualizations, and automated systems for insect agriculture. She co-founded Infoactive (acquired by Tableau) and later led Ovipost to commercialize automation for insect farming after a YC fellowship, combining startup grit with hardware-software product delivery. Her background spans senior product roles (Tableau’s Vizable), data visualization research, and organizing a 300-page open-source Data + Design book through a 100+ volunteer international effort. Trina blends creative public engagement—museum residencies and a touring edible-insect diner—with rigorous technical execution, and she has spoken at SXSW, Strata, and Stanford. A hands-on front-end contributor to the Data + Design project, she focuses on making complex data accessible and beautiful. Uniquely, she pairs entrepreneurial product-building with playful science outreach—teaching physics through circus arts and even biking coast-to-coast to fundraise—bringing uncommon communication skills to technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorSoftware Engineering Apprentice, Software Engineering Apprentice at 8th LightB.A. Economics, B.A. Economics at University of Southern Maine
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
self-organization9
content-management9
content-management-system9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
infoactive/data-design
Apr 2014 - Jun 2016
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:558 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Trina's commits focused on organizing and adding content to HTML files, specifically within the "05-visualizing-data" directory. They implemented and refined the structure of HTML chapters, including adding a table of contents and adjusting formatting for improved readability. The user's work involved the integration of a style sheet for proper display of the book content and addition of images into chapters for visual support.
infoactive/data-design-theme
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:96 commits in 2 months
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