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Engineering & product leader · Founder

Hi! I’m David Iya.

Thoughtful about people. Passionate about building. Creativity led me to engineering. Scaling my first startup helped me find my lane in product. I build teams, shape product direction, and stay close to the design and engineering that make an idea useful. I also help other people learn to build.

I’m also a husband and dad of two. Outside work, I love playing guitar, taking my camera somewhere new, and playing piano for my kids.

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$70M+GMV
40+Production apps shipped
10×Ad output for Robinhood
15,000+Students taught

01 / Flagship products

Products I’ve built.
Decisions I’ve owned.

A few things I’ve taken from an idea
to a product, a system, or a business.

On my workbench

I build the product.
And the way I work.

Inside my workflows
My products, Claude skills, and custom local workflows
The buildWhat it doesFocusDetails
01
Skool SkinzProduct & systemBuilt by me

A published Chrome extension for customizing Skool. I built a theme library, one-click switching, persistent preferences and a side-panel experience.

Browser extension
02
Robinhood ad engineProduct & systemBuilt by me

From a campaign brief to copy review, disclosure-aware variations, and Figma delivery. A custom creative system built around the team’s workflow.

Creative operations
03
Video production toolkitProduct & systemCustomized by me

A local workflow for editing decisions, captions, motion, native editing handoffs and rendered previews. I designed the handoffs and review experience around how I actually produce lessons.

AI + media engineering
04
Meetings into a content systemProduct & systemBuilt by me

My Fireflies integration inside SelfScale. I connected meeting transcripts to voice context and content creation, including the connection, validation and recovery experience.

Product integrations
05
Research → teaching carouselProduct & systemCustomized by me

A custom research-to-teaching workflow: retrieve a reference structure, shape the lesson, render the slides and export for the way the content will be used.

Content automation
06
Build the place people build inProduct & systemBuilt by me

Claude Code Club, Profit Room, and Business Builders Club. Marketing sites, course experiences, member funnels, and the systems behind them.

Community + product
07
Websites that moveProduct & systemCustomized by me

Production website recordings and original 3D interactions. The motion work behind the portfolio previews.

Creative development
08
Build Site SitekitClaude skillCustomized by me

I customize websites using the shared Site Kit: an interaction engine, a per-site design configuration and bespoke media. The workflow chooses the motion style from the product story.

Meta / dev / strategy
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02 / A little about me

Hey, I’m David.
Glad you’re here.

I’m an engineering and product leader, founder, and creative thinker. Creativity led me to engineering, and scaling my first startup helped me find my lane in product: understanding people, shaping the experience, and making it work.

I’m a two-time Y Combinator alumnus (S17 & W20) and a 2021 On Deck Founder Fellowship alumnus. Today, I build AI tools and workflows, teach people to build with Claude Code, and stay curious about what technology can make possible.

Away from the keyboard, I’m a husband and dad of two. I play guitar, take photographs, get outside when I can, and play piano for my kids.

More about my background A little more about me

Start with the right problem.

Customer discovery, scope, and the judgment to decide what matters first.

Get into the details.

Interface, architecture, integrations, and the less glamorous work that makes a product dependable.

Own the outcome.

From a solo launch to leading 20+ engineers. Stay accountable to the people using the product.

03 / The path so far

A builder, through
every chapter.

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2026 — Present

Claude Code Club

Building the community and systems that help people ship with AI.

Co-founder, Product & Growth
2024 — 2026

Buildroom.ai

AI products and automation for Robinhood, Scopely, and real estate teams.

Co-founder & CTO → Advisor
2017 — 2025

Eze

A global B2B electronics marketplace. Y Combinator W20.

Co-founder & CTO → Advisor
2017 — 2018

EverCheck

Healthcare compliance and verification. Concurrent with founding Eze.

Senior Software Engineer
2015 — 2017

T-21 Technologies

Web platforms and device interfaces for OTT streaming media.

Full-stack Software Engineer
2015 — 2018

Releaf

Built the company’s first MVP. Y Combinator S17.

Frontend Web Developer

A few tools I work with

ReactNext.jsJavaScriptNestJSSupabaseMongoDBClaude CodeFigman8nElevenLabs

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