Vincent Vu

Engineering great products

What I care about:

• Building software with craftmanship and simplicity: feature bloating and sugar-coated UIs happen way too often when building interfaces -- I love a sharp focus on the user experience and whether or not it solves users' problems.
• Developer + tech infra products: there will always be technical problems and inefficiencies; I believe products that focus in this market can win big if done correctly.

I write most of my thoughts here: Blog

Now:

• Engineering @ FlowGPT: AI chatbot + prompt engineering community. Seed stage startup w/ +200k users; engineer #10 on the team; doing a bunch of growth + fullstack engineering

Previously:

• Lead of Engineering @ HackSC: Rebuilding tech for the flagship hackathon @ USC; led a big technical team building a plug-and-play hackathon portal and full-stack platform
• Engineering @ Coursera: Worked on platform foundations powering the largest MOOC platform in the world

Builds:

• Supernova
• fordevs.xyz
• Tara.ai
• Spotify Currently Playing API
• 2048 on the CLI

Alma mater:

• B.S. Computer Science @ University of Southern California

In my free time:

• Valorant gamer
• Listen to podcasts (favs: Lenny's, Startup Therapy)
• Tinker with Rust
• Dig into LLMs