Harrison Tin

Founder | Software Engineer

Status: coding, caffeinated, and ready to debug life's mysteries

~/experience

co-founder @ palmier (YC S24)

2024 - Present

building cool stuff, pivoting many times, and learning that "it works on my machine" isn't a valid deployment strategy.

software engineer @ microsoft

2022 - 2024

first job out of college, learned how the internet works.

research assistant @ uc berkeley

2021 - 2022

worked with a lot of smart people, learned how to deal with impostor syndrome. also learned how databases actually work.

~/favorites

• sport - currently surfing
• coffee shop in sf - SPRO in Mission Bay
• dev tool - modal
• nba player - tyrese maxey
• place - oahu

~/stats

bugs created:
bugs fixed:∞ - 1
time spent standing up:not enough
money spent on claude code:too much
languages spoken:english, cantonese, mandarin

~/current-mission

building palmier

harrison@life:~$ sudo apt-get install work-life-balance
Package not found. Did you mean: more-coffee?

Let's Connect!

Want to chat about startups, dev tools, life?

harrison@blog:~/contact$ echo "DMs are open!" | mail -s "Let's build something cool"