Zay Chance
Co-Founder at Intro
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZay Chance is a serial founder and hands-on engineering leader with 12 years of experience building viral social products and production-grade real-time systems. As Co-Founder of Chance he architects AI-native workflows and privacy-first identity for live voice/video social discovery, personally contributing over half of the codebase with 1,650+ commits in 14 months. His track record includes six startups (four acquired) and multiple App Store #1s—Gas, Poparazzi, Monkey, and NGL—where he led full-stack engineering from Swift mobile clients to scalable Node.js and Rust backends. Known for marrying high-performance protocols (gRPC, LiveKit) with pragmatic infrastructure (Terraform, AWS, DynamoDB), he favors correctness and scale over shortcuts. He also advises early-stage founders on viral growth and product-led engineering, distilling playbooks proven at consumer scale. Unusually for a founder/CTO, he still writes production code daily and builds custom AI agents to accelerate ship cadence.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Dropout, High School Dropout at St. Mary's Ryken High School
Github Skills (200)
testing10
realm10
browser10
html10
mixpanel10
nodejs10
css10
python10
apple-tv10
swift10
continuous-integration10
analytics-tracking10
chrome10
realtime10
javascript10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
IsaiahJTurner/ZallChat
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:112 commits, 2 PRs, 99 pushes in 3 months
IsaiahJTurner/HomeworkHunt
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 21 days
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