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Andy Fang

Co-founder of DoorDash, Head of LaunchPad

Andy Fang is one of the co-founders of DoorDash, which began in January 2013 as a Palo Alto restaurant delivery website run by Stanford students and joined Y Combinator that summer. He was its chief technology officer from 2013 to 2019, then led consumer engineering. Since November 2022 he has run LaunchPad, DoorDash's new software products team, and he has been a director since 2013.

Now
Head of LaunchPad, DoorDash1
Co-founded
DoorDash, 2013 (YC Summer 2013)3
Board
DoorDash director since May 20131
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Stanford1

Experience

DoorDash2013 – now
  1. Head of LaunchPadNov 2022 – now

    Leads LaunchPad, DoorDash's new software products team.1

  2. Head of Consumer EngineeringUntil Nov 2022

    Held this title when DoorDash filed to go public in 2020.8

  3. Chief Technology Officer1May 2013 – Feb 2019
  4. Director, board of directors1May 2013 – now
Stanford University2011 – 2013
  1. CS106 Section LeaderSep 2011 – Jun 2013

    Part of Stanford's CS198 section leader program.2

Facebook2011 – 2012
  1. Software Engineering InternJun 2012 – Sep 2012

    Menlo Park. Worked with other teams to build new endpoints for Facebook's Graph API.2

  2. Software Engineering InternJun 2011 – Sep 2011

    Palo Alto. Built interface parts of Power Editor, a large advertising management tool written as a JavaScript web app.2

Education

Stanford University2010 – 2014

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science2

The Harker SchoolClass of 2010

High school; student body president6

Recognition

Milestones

  1. With his co-founders, launches a website listing menus from local Palo Alto restaurants, the start of DoorDash8
  2. Becomes chief technology officer and a director of the company1
  3. DoorDash joins Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch3
  4. Finishes a bachelor's degree in computer science at Stanford2
  5. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology (2015 list) with co-founder Stanley Tang5
  6. The company, incorporated as Palo Alto Delivery Inc., is renamed DoorDash, Inc.8
  7. Steps down as chief technology officer and later leads consumer engineering1
  8. Becomes Head of LaunchPad, DoorDash's new software products team1
  9. The Associated Press reports he makes DoorDash deliveries in San Francisco for at least an hour a month4
  10. Announces the DoorDash command-line tool, dd-cli, in limited beta, letting AI agents search stores and check out7

Skills

  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Django
  • Ruby on Rails
  • C++
  • SQL
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Git
  • Unix

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