About
Peter Shih previously served as VP Engineering and founded multiple technology companies. He has built experience across mobile, social, payments, commerce, media, supply chain, and healthcare sectors, with expertise in product architecture, team scaling, and organizational leadership.
Founder/CTO at CeleryYC S12
Intro paths
YC
Peter went through Y Combinator (Summer 2012) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Peter can intro founders to Celery's investors below.
Celery's investors · 2
Co-founders at Celery
CT
Chris TsaiFounder/CEO
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Brian NguyenFounder/CPO
Experience
- Clarium HealthVP of Engineering2020 — 2025New York City Metropolitan Area
- 10x ManagementFreelance Technologist2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- CeleryCo-founder and CTO2012 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- foursquareiPhone Developer2012Greater New York City Area
- LinkedInLead iPhone Developer2010 — 2011Mountain View, CA
Skills & more
Technical LeadershipFull-Stack DevelopmentEngineering ManagementWeb Development1iOS development2User Experience (UX)Web VideoMobile ApplicationsReact.jsJavaScript7Node.js5PostgreSQL4
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MongoDBRedux.jsHTML5Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Objective-CAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)iOSLanguages English · Mandarin Chinese
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Peter Shih?
- Peter Shih previously served as VP Engineering and founded multiple technology companies. He has built experience across mobile, social, payments, commerce, media, supply chain, and healthcare sectors, with expertise in product architecture, team scaling, and organizational leadership.
- Where does Peter Shih work?
- Peter Shih is Founder/CTO of Celery.
- What companies did Peter Shih found?
- Peter Shih founded Celery.
- Where did Peter Shih go to school?
- Peter Shih studied at Y Combinator (Make Something People Want); UC San Diego (Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Henry M. Gunn High School.
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