rdipasup

Hello Paul Graham & Y Combinator. My name is Ray Dipasupil & I was born here in the U.S. but grew up in the Philippines. As a child, I grew up as a Yamaha classically trained pianist & have always been passionate about cars. I majored in economics & accounting in Loyola Marymount University but began programming in high school. The programming languages I'm on are JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, & jQuery but started dabbling in the server side of PHP & Node.JS. During the little time I have, I moonlight as a hobbyist cook & have a deep admiration for Chef Gordon Ramsay's tenacity & determination in getting things done. I'm also perpetually curious about other fields & the current book I'm reading right now is Ray Kurzweil's How to Create a Mind - The Secret of Human Thought Revealed & Walter Isaacson's biography, Einstein - His Life & Universe.

I founded StanceTrader, which is a peer-to-peer eCommerce marketplace for car parts catering to hot rodders and...