David Cai

David Cai has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. David currently works as a Product Manager at ChartHop since 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Yahoo for three years, from 2019 to 2021, where they served as a Product Manager for Yahoo News iOS and Android Mobile apps. Within this role, they achieved notable accomplishments such as increasing app revenue by 55% through A/B experiments, launching US local news for higher engagement, and implementing notification channels for increased user retention. David also worked on the Identity Team at Yahoo, where they led a redesign project for the account settings page and made improvements to user-facing interstitials.

Before joining Yahoo, David worked at Rice University as a Teaching Assistant for computer science courses and as a Student Computing Consultant, Lead. In these roles, they provided assistance to students, conducted grading, and resolved technical issues. Additionally, David served as a Web Developer for The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, where they managed the web presence and curated relevant materials to promote the institute among students and alumni.

David also gained industry experience through internships at Facebook and Evernote. At Facebook, they worked as a Software Engineering Intern on the Prepack team and contributed to the development of a debugger tool by extending its implementation and integrating it with existing pipelines. At Evernote, they were a Software Engineering Intern and implemented web-client feature experiments and introduced multiple-account login.

Overall, David Cai's work experience showcases their expertise in product management, web development, and software engineering across various industries and organizations.

David Cai obtained their Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Computer Science from Rice University from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, they completed their high school education at Catalina Foothills High School from 2011 to 2015. David later pursued further education and obtained a Master of Computer Science (MCS) degree from Rice University from 2018 to 2019.