Conrad Chu
Started Munchery, a San Francisco-based startup aiming to be the most comprehensive marketplace for locally-sourced meals by personal chefs.
Former Design Director at Ask.com
Early Team Member at GetActive, later Convio (IPO 2010)
Creator of PunyPNG: optimization tool used by 11,000 developers and designers alike, including teams at Wikipedia, Ask.com, Dictionary, Drugstore.com, and Mashable.
During free time, mentor and lecturer at Interhigh, a youth ministry helping immigrant teens, and as a technical lead of web and video operations at Gracepoint church.
MFA from Academy of Art University and a BS EECS from UC Berkeley.
Dad to two cute kids.
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UX design lead with experience ranging from the scrappy start up to mass-consumer site . Passionate about architecting user experiences, but probably even more fanatic about pixel-precision and visual design. Hands on designer by day, code junkie at night.
Specialties: UX strategy, product design, concept development, interaction design, visual design, front-end developmentExperience- Nov 2010 - PresentCTO / Co-founder / Munchery
- Oct 2010 - PresentPrincipal / Runt Creative LLC
A full-service UX design consultancy
- Oct 2007 - Aug 2011Design Director / Ask.com
- Oct 2004 - Sept 2007Senior Manager, Usability and Design / Convio
Formerly GetActive Software
- Jul 2003 - Aug 2004Technical Director / Tippett Studio
Filmography: Hellboy (2004), Constantine (2005)
- Jul 2000 - Jul 2003UX Designer / Front-end Developer / Convio
Education-
2000 - 2003Academy of Art UniversityMFA in Computer Arts
Activities: Cum Laude -
1996 - 2000University of California, BerkeleyBS in Electrical Engineering Computer Sciences
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Honors:2005 - Academy of Art Spring Show Special Achievement Award 2003 - Nickelodeon NickToon Film Winner 2001 - Design of ActionNetwork, voted PC Magazine's "The Best Of the Web: Seven That Make It Work for Them"
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Repositories
- Searches http://bricklink.com to calculate the most cost-effective combination of sellers to buy a set of specified LEGO bricks from./ Pushed Jan 13, 16
- Craigslist classifieds app intended for small communities. Built on Ruby on Rails.9 watchers / Pushed Jun 22, 12
- simple backup for mysql, posgresql, svn and files to s3 or local filesystem1 watcher / Pushed Dec 09, 11
- 1 watcher / Pushed Sep 26, 11
- A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.228 forks / 1032 watchers / Pushed Mar 02, 16
- A generalized Rack middleware for importing contacts from major email providers.187 forks / 424 watchers / Pushed Feb 29, 16
- Simple and reliable beanstalkd job queue for ruby40 forks / 344 watchers / Pushed Feb 20, 16
- simple backup for mysql, posgresql, svn and files to s3 or local filesystem70 forks / 425 watchers / Pushed Jun 08, 15
- brickoptimizer - optimize the price of Bricklinks Wanted List1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Jan 23, 14
- Ruby/CLI: Automatic lossless reduction of all your images20 forks / 574 watchers / Pushed Oct 08, 12
- Craigslist classifieds app intended for small communities. Built on Ruby on Rails.9 watchers / Pushed Jun 22, 12
- simple backup for mysql, posgresql, svn and files to s3 or local filesystem1 watcher / Pushed Dec 09, 11
- 1 watcher / Pushed Sep 26, 11
- Database based asynchronously priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify1 watcher / Pushed Mar 25, 11
- Database based asynchronously priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Mar 25, 11
