Yong-soo Chung
Founder at URBAN EDC®
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYong-Soo Chung is a founder and operator with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience building and exiting consumer and logistics businesses from the ground up. He founded URBAN EDC in a one-bedroom San Francisco apartment in 2015 and grew it into a leading everyday-carry e-commerce brand, launched a popular dog lifestyle boutique with a 150k+ social following, and built GrowthJet—the world’s first Climate Neutral Certified 3PL—before exiting in 2024. He brings hands-on technical chops from early software roles (including front-end contributions to the Ripple client) and a formal background in computer engineering and economics, enabling him to bridge product, growth, and operations. Now mentoring founders, he focuses on scaling teams, hiring operators, creating growth flywheels, and building loyal audiences, combining trader-like data rigor with creative brand instincts. Outside work he’s a new dad and an operator who still prefers bootstrapping and rapid experiment-driven growth.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorHigh School, High School at Groton SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Africana Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Africana Studies at Bowdoin College
Korean, English
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
user-experience9
ui-design9
interface-design9
html9
css9
user-interface9
ux-design9
regex6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ripple/ripple-client
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
A UI for the Ripple payment network built using web technologies
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:559 commits, 119 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yong-soo primarily contributed to the user interface of the Ripple client application, using web technologies. Their work involved significant text and placeholder changes, including modifications to the contact, trade, and send tabs. They also addressed UI/UX issues by modifying the navigation bar, and they added tooltips and styling improvements to several parts of the interface, including the connect modal. They fixed issues and added components for the fund and exchange tabs.
paymentstechnologiescryptopaymentripple
yongsoo/fidor-sync
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 35 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 month
monitorspaymentstracksquotes
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