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Hall Chen

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Co-Founder & CTO at Gridware
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Hall Chen is the Co-Founder and CTO of Gridware, a Y Combinator-backed company focused on building a safer electrical grid. A graduate of UC Berkeley, his work in preventing power-line fires has landed him on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

His career path suggests a deep-seated passion for applying advanced engineering to solve major real-world problems, from satellite communications at Astranis to foundational physics research at Stanford University.

His companys technology was recognized as one of TIME Magazines Best Inventions of 2022.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Grid Modernization
As Co-Founder and CTO of Gridware, his entire professional focus is on building a safer, more reliable electric grid to prevent outages and fires.
Wildfire Prevention
His company's core mission is creating hardware that detects faults in the power grid to stop devastating wildfires before they can start.
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Career

Work history

12-2020
Co-Founder & CTO
Gridware
6-2018 - 12-2020
RF Payload Design
Astranis
6-2014 - 8-2014
GP-B Research Intern
Stanford University - Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory
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Education
B.S.
University of California, Berkeley
W21
Y Combinator
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