Figure 1.1 Me, circa 2023.

Welcome!

Hi, I'm Simon Chase. I go to Waterloo for CS, which is actually pretty fun contrary to popular opinion. Before Waterloo I had a very brief career acting in toy commercials, ran a successful Warheads business in middle school (candies, not weapons), and was kinda famous on Khan Academy for a while. These days I'm into climbing and squash.

In terms of work, I'm currently at Shopify learning about database infra at scale. I've also done infra at Patreon, payment features for Super.com, and other less interesting stuff at SS&C Technologies and Veriday. I've previously interviewed with YC as a co-founder and worked for years at a climbing gym (which is arguably cooler).

I like to work on projects that take my interest when I have time. These have included turning around my school's climbing club, building a bot to get students into full courses, and reverse-engineering the Moonboard to figure out which climbs are easiest.

Feel free to hit me up at hi@simonchase.com!