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    Andrew Ng

    Andrew Ng (He/Him)

    Former Principal Engineer. Cofounder & iOS engineer @priime, @y-combinator W15. Building iOS and web products; open to focused engineering contracts.

    Entrepreneur Taipei City Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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    Experience
    140 Proof
    Exit
    140 Proof
    Ruby, Full Stack + iOS 2011 - 2014 (about 3 years)
    Flowtown
    Exit
    Flowtown
    Ruby Hacker 2010 - 2011 (7 months)
    Uversity
    Exit
    Uversity
    Ruby Consultant 2009 (5 months)
    Atheros
    Exit
    Atheros
    Architect 2005 - 2007 (almost 2 years)
    Lightmist Coffee
    Lightmist Coffee
    Founder & Curator 2025 - Present (11 months)
    Building Lightmist Coffee (微嵐咖啡), a specialty coffee brand in Taipei focused on ultra-light roasts and community.

    I curate coffee selections, host small-group tastings,... more and build the brand’s e-commerce site and supporting tools. The focus is thoughtful sourcing, brewing craft, and learning together over good coffee.
    Priime
    Priime
    Founder & iOS 2014 - 2025 (about 11 years)
    Making your photos beautiful. YC W15.

    Built from scratch with my cofounders in 3 months. #1 in Photos & Video. #3 Top Paid overall in the US App Store. Apple Best... more New App. Editor's Choice. 200K+ installs in days. Zero marketing spend on all of it.
    Products: Priime for iPhone (the biggest Swift app at the time, highly optimized CIFilter chain and Metal, RAW support, wide color), Priime RAW for iPad (Editor's Choice, subscription model), Priime Styles for macOS (AppKit native, Photos.app extension), Live GIF (concept to App Store in one week, hit Top Grossing), Priime Lightroom Presets.

    Featured in national TV commercials, top magazines, and Apple marketing materials.
    Healthi
    Healthi
    Principal Engineer 2020 - 2025 (over 5 years)
    Principal Engineer for 5+ years across iOS, Android, and web. Built and led a team of three engineers and one QA with zero attrition — the strongest team I've had the opportunity... more to build. Shipped continuously, improved product quality and delivery velocity, incubated and launched HealthiCare (the company's GLP-1 product line), and navigated multiple acquisition discussions.
    Pullfolio
    Pullfolio
    Co-Founder 2009 - 2022 (over 13 years)
    Built a SaaS portfolios hosting platform for photographers and artists with test-driven Ruby on Rails and iOS SDK. The iPhone and iPad Universal app was one of the first to... more utilize iOS 4 features such as background tasks completion and local notifications. The app was approved by Apple seven days after initial submission.
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    Flowtown, 140 Proof, Uversity, Atheros, Pullfolio, Healthi, Priime, Lightmist Coffee
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    Skills
    iOS Development Ruby on Rails Objective-C Ruby Amazon Web Services iOS Swift
    Locations
    Taipei
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