Steve Au - Entrepreneur. Builder. Hacker. Father.

Entrepreneur. Builder. Father.

Say hello to Michael.

Wannabe bike racer.

Always Building

I am a 3x hands-on technical founder (raised a $1MM Series A), with a strong web/mobile full-stack and UX background. A language agnostic 'Geek of all Trades' specializing in data aggregation, APIs, mobile apps, front-end frameworks, usability, and delivering high quality consumer products to the web and mobile app stores. Let's build something.

I'm currently obsessing over home automation (after completing a remodeled smart home), amateur furniture building, and photography.

Full Stack Development

I'm there through the initial concept discussions all the way through to production server deployment. Let's design it, build it, break it, and do it again.

Kick-ass Teams

You had me at kick-ass. I love working with and honing the best of small and diversely agile teams.

Entrepreneur

Not only are warp speed MVPs sexy, but they're one of the many tools that I use to find and tune product market fit. I love taking an idea from zero to hero and doing so without incurring costly technical debt.

Infrastructure

My world is deployed on AWS. I have an arsenal of custom scripts that can get a performant production ready infrastructure up in no time.

Sometimes I like to shoot

Recently ditched the SLR for the Micro Four Thirds format.

Follow me on Flickr

Co-Founder
& CTO of
Motivate

Motivate is an iOS app that builds healthy habits through an innovative mix of social and financial incentives in which players’ fitness data seamlessly contributes towards their weekly fitness goal against others for a cash pot.

"Keeps me accountable and the step tracker is the most accurate I've used. Kudos." - Kmae18

pick
Pick eliminates the back and forth out of getting people together to do the things they want to do by comparing connected calendars and automatically finding the best time to meet. Hit #1 on Product Hunt on its January launch. Available on web and native iOS.
kwiry
Co-founder of a venture funded mobile SMS bookmarking service (in a pre-smartphone world) with partnerships including TiVo, Ford, Razorfish, and Scripps Networks.
motivate
Motivate is an iOS app that builds healthy habits through an innovative mix of social andfinancial incentives in which players' fitness data seamlessly contributes towards their weeklyfitness goal against others for a cash pot.
plumdistrict
User Experience and Email merchandising design. Designed and integrated responsive HTML email templates and usability workflows for web and email.
districtfinds
A deal aggregation engine for daily deal sites with 'deal match' alerts via email, SMS, and Twitter.
dealspoon
A deal aggregation engine for daily deal sites with 'deal match' alerts via email, SMS, and Twitter.
sram
Designed and developed a professional road racing microsite with custom WordPress social aggregation widgets for Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr in PHP and jQuery.
specialized
Social media integrations consultant for special projects. Designed and developed the Win Counter Leaderboard to boost user engagement with pro and amateur bike racers on Facebook that yielded over 20k likes.