# Xin Ding

> Xin Ding is the cofounder and CEO of Attune (YC X25), a San Francisco startup building blazingly fast, drop-in build tools that speed up compilation without any migration effort. After more than a decade shaping developer-tools products - as Head of Product at FOSSA and VP of Product at Teleport, where he helped scale the company to unicorn status - he teamed up with longtime colleague Eliza Zhang to attack one of the least glamorous but most universal engineering headaches: slow builds. Attune's first product lets Rust developers prefix an existing command with 'hurry' to get dramatically faster builds through distributed caching, remote execution, and compiler-native optimizations.

- **Role:** Cofounder & CEO at Attune (YC X25)
- **Organizations:** Attune, Teleport, FOSSA, IBM
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- **Known for:** Cofounded Attune (YC X25), a developer-tools startup building drop-in fast build tooling, Helped scale Teleport to unicorn status as VP of Product, growing its SaaS offering from 0 to 8-figure ARR, Scaled FOSSA from seed stage to 8-figure ARR as Head of Product

## Career timeline

- **—** — Held engineering-adjacent roles including a stint at IBM early in his career
- **—** — Joined FOSSA at seed stage as Head of Product, scaling it from 0 to 8-figure ARR
- **—** — Became VP of Product at Teleport (YC S15), building product and design teams and helping scale the company to unicorn status and its SaaS offering from 0 to 8-figure ARR
- **2025** — Cofounded Attune with Eliza Zhang; joined Y Combinator's X25 batch and raised a seed round

## Achievements

- Cofounded Attune (YC X25), a developer-tools startup building drop-in fast build tooling
- Helped scale Teleport to unicorn status as VP of Product, growing its SaaS offering from 0 to 8-figure ARR
- Scaled FOSSA from seed stage to 8-figure ARR as Head of Product
- Over a decade of experience building developer-tools products
- Accepted into Y Combinator (X25 batch) and raised a $130K seed

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Attune raised a seed round and was part of Y Combinator's X25 batch.
- **2025-05** — Attune launched fast build support for Rust, with Docker and additional languages planned.

## Links

- Website: https://attunehq.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinding3/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/xinding33
- GitHub: https://github.com/xinding33

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/xin-ding
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-07-31