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Ronald Ding

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Co-Founder & CTO at Shadeform (YC S23)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Ronald Ding is the Co-Founder and CTO of Shadeform (YC S23), a unified GPU cloud marketplace. He has deep expertise in large-scale distributed infrastructure from his time as a tech lead and engineer at Robinhood and Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he worked on services like Kinesis. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

While an undergraduate, Ronald was part of a student team that developed the Brain VR project, which used EEG data to allow users to control a video game with their minds. This project explored using technology and biofeedback to improve health.

As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, he worked on a project to control a video game using only brain waves, combining biofeedback with virtual reality.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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GPU Accessibility
His company, Shadeform, was founded to solve the GPU shortage by creating a single marketplace to access hardware from over 15+ cloud providers.
Stablecoin Payments
He has spoken about leveraging stablecoins through Stripe to reduce transaction fees by 66% and increase revenue by 10% from global customers.
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Career

Work history

6-2023
Co-Founder & CTO
Shadeform (YC S23)
9-2022 - 6-2023
Senior Software Engineer
Robinhood
3-2021 - 9-2022
Software Engineer
Robinhood
9-2020 - 3-2021
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
7-2019 - 9-2020
Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Education
8-2014 - 5-2018
Bachelor's degree
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
2014 - 2018
Bachelor's Degree
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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