Nan Yu

I'm a technology leader and builder. I'm currently Head of Product at Linear.

Some things about me

• Born in Suzhou, grew up in San Diego
• Studied EECS at UC Berkeley. Go Bears
• Currently lives in Brooklyn
• Previously CTO at Everlane, VPP at Mode

Products I love

I love products and technology. Every product was cutting edge technology at some point, and there's a lot to learn from their evolution.

• Lamy Safari fountain pen
• Casio G-shock watch
• Visual Studio Code editor
• Salomon XT-6 trail running shoes
• CleanShot screen capture tool

Writing, Talks, Projects

• The Heirloom Tomato Org Chart — a talk I gave at Figma's Config conference about anti-patterns in startup org chart design
• Simple Static Site (sss) — an extremely simple static site generator that I created to build and maintain this web site. The absolutely simplest way to create a website from a set of markdown files

Contact

• X/Twitter
• LinkedIn

Website built with sss, a simple static site generator created by me, with the help of Cursor and Claude