About
Ronald Ding is CTO at Shadeform. He previously served as an engineer and tech lead at Robinhood, AWS, and Microsoft, where he worked on large-scale distributed infrastructure systems.
Founder at ShadeformYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Ronald went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Shadeform's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ronald can intro founders to Shadeform's investors below.
Shadeform's investors · 2
Co-founders at Shadeform
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Ed GoodeFounder
Experience
- Shadeform (YC S23)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- RobinhoodSenior Software Engineer2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- RobinhoodSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineer II2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineer2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftTechnical Services Consultant2018 — 2019Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- GE DigitalDigital Technology Leadership Program (Software Engineer) Intern2017San Ramon, California
- Bank of America Merrill LynchSoftware Engineer Intern2016Greater New York City Area
- Academic Benchmarking Consortium, Inc.Software Engineer2015 — 2016Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Skills & more
Public Speaking40Project Management46Teaching34Data Analysis10Research8JavaScript8AngularJS6Java6Amazon Web Services (AWS)6Jenkins4Docker3Github3
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Customer ServiceDevOpsMicrosoft AzureKubernetesLanguages Chinese (Simplified) · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ronald Ding?
- Ronald Ding is CTO at Shadeform. He previously served as an engineer and tech lead at Robinhood, AWS, and Microsoft, where he worked on large-scale distributed infrastructure systems.
- Where does Ronald Ding work?
- Ronald Ding is Founder of Shadeform.
- What companies did Ronald Ding found?
- Ronald Ding founded Shadeform.
- Where did Ronald Ding go to school?
- Ronald Ding studied at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School (Bachelor's degree, Business Administration); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor's Degree, BS Computer Science and BS Business Administration); Y Combinator.
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Shared employers
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