Danny W. Chen
Serial Entrepreneur & Full Stack Dev
New York, Brooklyn, 👑

About
17 | x3 startup founder ($7500 MRR) | 2500+ student community | Rockefeller of Software
Stats
DreamyUni
Active 12560 users
Masterfy
Active 2201 users
SearchMaxin
Waitlist 1200 users
QuestTP
Not Launched 0 users
* Updated 4/21
Experience
- Founder @ DreamyUniNY - HybridSummary:
- Scaled to $7500 MRR | Built this startup with the intention of creating the next most locked-in high school community.
Achievements:
- Over 12900+ visits and 3812 users in just 2 LinkedIn posts (1.2 million impressions)
- Over 2500 students (US & international) in the Discord server & 200 member weekly growth
- 190+ user discovery calls
- Three.js
- React
- Node
- GitHub
- Vue
- Firestore
- Next.js
- SQL
- Founder @ MasterfyNY - HybridSummary:
- 1st place startup at Jetson EIR program (50/10000 applicants accepted) centered around mastering any skill with a single search
Achievements:
- Requested raise of 10k funding for enhanced models with hundreds of trained data & a custom model being built by me in PyTorch along with increased pipelines
- 1,500+ visits, 364 users, 15k+ impressions, 50.35% conversion rate, 50.83% user engagement rate first few days of beta launch
- Increased user engagement and conversion rate by 6000% (GA4) within a single day as well as averaging 50.5% respectively
- Grew personal brand on LinkedIn (500 -> 1500)
- (All statistics shown from just the first day of launch)
- Three.js
- React
- Node
- GitHub
- Vue
- Firestore
- Next.js
- SQL
- Founder @ QuestTPNY - HybridSummary:
- An app to revolutionize to do list experiences with gamified 3d virtual islands (stealth)
Achievements:
- Signed a Letter of Intent with $1 million dollar startup
- Three.js
- React
- Node
- GitHub
- Vue
- Firestore
- Full Stack @ NY Senator Iwen ChuNY - HybridSummary:
- Built full stack app to increase volunteer traffic/interests for NY senator Iwen Chu
- Lead Software Developer @ Bright Sparks AcademyNY - RemoteSummary:
- Developing SparkSmart Learning Hub, which is a platform aimed at providing personalized education resources that has held over 500+ sessions and supported 30 students with 250 helping in Kenya
Responsibilities:
- Managing 3 development teams totaling 20 interns to develop the application
- Developed the backend authentication and messaging applications
- React
- Node
- GitHub
- Vue
- Firestore
- Student Intern @ Guggenheim MuseumManhattan, NY - In-personSummary:
- Led a self-initiative to leverage my web development skills towards enhancing the operational efficiency of the teen internship program
Responsibilities:
- Designed and developed a comprehensive intern management system to streamline the scheduling and coordination process for both interns and program coordinators
- TBD if it will be used by 100s of upcoming interns
- React
- Node
- GitHub
- Vue
- Firestore
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Education
Certificates
Information Technologist in Software Development
Certiport - A Pearson VUE business
Information Technologist in Artificial Intelligence
Certiport - A Pearson VUE business
Skills
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Tailwind
- TypeScript
- Node
- SQL
- MongoDB
- Git
- GitHub
- Next.js
- React
- Vue
- Docker
- Vite
- WordPress
- Astro
- Vercel
- Netlify
- Cloudflare Edge Functions
- Firestore
- Three.js