# Donovan So

> Founding Engineer at Fintool

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/donovanso

Building AI agents for financial services.

Founding Engineer at Fintool (YC W23); formerly Founder & CTO at BricksAI (YC S22)

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Fintool.com [ChatGPT+EDGAR]
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Co-Founder @ BricksAI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
BricksAI is a YC-backed LLM observability and access control platform.

### Technical Analyst @ Credit Suisse
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Hong Kong SAR
- Implemented a wide range of trading systems and financial dashboards used in the APAC region.
- Collaborated with business users to revamp a legacy React dashboard for displaying financial instruments, resulting in a 15% increase in weekly page visits.
- Created internal tools to automate the company’s request for change (RFC) process, saving developers 80% of their time on every production deployment.
- Onboarded and mentored new hires

### Summer Analyst, Information Technology @ Credit Suisse
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Hong Kong
- Implemented and deployed a Node.js service to enable chatbot services on Symphony (think Slack for banks), handling over 200,000 messages per month across IT teams in Hong Kong and Singapore.

### Student @ Horizons School of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Software engineering curriculum in Full Stack Web Development.
• Team projects include building clones of Trello, Kickstarter, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp.
• Experience working with JS, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, NodeJS, Express, React, Redux and Git.


## Education
### Y Combinator

### Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS)
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

### Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/donovanso

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Source: https://flows.cv/donovanso
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/donovanso/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05