Team

Alvin Tse

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Alvin hails from Hong Kong and is currently a senior at Stanford University studying organizations, technologies and entrepreneurship. He expects to graduate with a bachelor of science in the management science and engineering department in 2010. Apart from going to school, Alvin loves thinking about cool ideas and ways to make people happy. He also enjoys Buddhism, Chinese medicine and Philosophy.

Think Bulbs is his first venture. He previously worked at Slide as a creative marketing intern and is currently the Co-President of BASES and founder of CEO (Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization) at Stanford.

Martin Kou

Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer

A fervent believer of open source and technology's ability in transforming the world, Martin has started multiple open source projects by himself since he was in secondary school and was Core JavaScript Developer at FCKeditor/CKEditor from 2007 to 2009.

Lazy, impatient, and proud (or at least, trying the best to be) - Martin's philosophy towards software design and implementation is to work smart rather than work hard; and be unforgiving in testing and maintenance.

Martin obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with 3 Dean's List Awards.

Michael Chan

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

Michael is responsible for the operations of Think Bulbs in the US.

Michael has broad interests in computer science and engineering ranging from low-level hardware to software development. His specialty is in computer networking, where he has been focusing on at university.

Michael is in the Computer Science PhD program at Stanford University. He obtained his Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering and Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology."

Jia Shen

Advisor

Jia is the CTO and co-founder of RockYou, and has focused extensively on graphic design and usability throughout his professional web development career spanning over 10 years. Prior to RockYou, Jia has held management roles leading the user interface and technical solutions teams at Open Harbor, and managing engineering at Iconix. Jia started working on scalable consumer applications at shopping tools internet provider Bluedog, a Stanford-based startup, and was part of the original team at Bell Laboratories which developed the VoiceXML format into the W3C standard. In addition, Jia's experience has spanned enterprise sales and professional services functions, working with large multi-national corporation customers like Mitsubishi, Tyco, Flextronics, and DHL. Jia has a double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Ka Yue Yeung

User experience and Design Director

Ka Yue is an experienced user experience designer and web developer, specializing in front-end technology such as XHTML, CSS and Javascript. Ka Yue is obsessed with information architecture, interaction design and search engine optimization/ marketing.

With years of experience in web development, Ka Yue is responsible for the design and implementation of the Think Bulbs products user experience.

Tong

Programmer

Tong is a programmer in Think Bulbs dedicated to iPhone development. He has developed a number of funny games for popular desktop and mobile platforms.

Putting user experience of an application on the first priority, he often does research on graphics algorithms and user interface design, hoping to turn a monotonous program into a piece of stunning artwork.

Being the youngest member in the dev team of Think Bulbs, Tong is very eager to learn and face challenges.