# Leo Chiu

> A  Realistic  Dreamer in Action

Location: San Bruno, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leochiu

Excel at identifying untapped market demand (pain) in a business process, coming up with innovative solutions (aspirin) to create quantum leaps in system productivity and efficiency.

Experienced in capitalizing leading edge academic and lab research into disruptive technology which can re-define the industry and capture rock-solid value in the market place. Skilled in recruiting and orchestrating a SWAT team of nerds to create world class engineering masterpiece.

Specialties: entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, cashflow generation, creative financing, artificial intelligence, RTS gaming, computer programming, robotics, open source, fund raising

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ MyFitnessPal
Jan 2012 – Present
Recruited as one of the first 5 engineers building & scaling the mobile, web front & backend infrastructure from 10mm to 80mm users, and acquired by Under Armour for US$475mm.

Enable seamless data  integration with IoT fitness gear partners such as Apple watch and Fitbit.  

Lead the big data initiative to turn terabytes of food, recipe, exercise and social data collected from mobile and web into actionable real-time insights for users via technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Hadoop Spark, Tableau, redshift

### EIR @ new venture exploration
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Joined my friend from Webjuice to pursue series of noble endeavors that we put off since graduation.

### CTO & VP Engineering @ Webjuice
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, CA
Joined my friend from Stanford to re-architect and scale Webjuice's e-marketing technology infrastructure:
●	Built a high performance 24 X 7, 99.95% uptime CPA/CPC/CPM ad network/exchange that generated over US$100MM revenue for the company
●	Designed and developed a social targeting engine to leverage the social graph in twitter and facebook for n-th degree social demographic-behavioral targeting
●	Took over the Adteractive engineering and operation team and consolidated the PCI infrastructure

### Co-Founder and CTO @ Apptera Inc.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2007 | San Bruno, CA
Identified a business pain from prior work experience, validated the business opportunity with numerous prospects, turned this idea into a business plan, built the prototype while continuously fine-tuning the business model, generated enough revenue to feed 2 and half employees, raised seed capital in year 2001, assembled and managed a 10 person engineering team to fuel the award-winning product, raised over US$20 million in series B and C from top tier VCs in the valley, grew the company to 40 people and attracted a high profile management team.


## Education
### MS in Operation Research
Stanford University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11