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Jean Yang

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of Akita Software, acquired by Postman.
  • Led observability product development at Postman.
  • Recognized as a top innovator by MIT Technology Review.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Academia expert with a strong focus on software engineering and product development.

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AlgorithmsCC++Computational BiologyComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsGlitterHaskellJavaLaTeXMachine LearningMatlabProgrammingProgramming LanguagesPython

About

Software runs the world. My goal is to make it easy for everyone to build software.

Experience

Andreessen horowitz

Scout

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • I invest small checks. If you're doing a bottom-up B2B SaaS startup, I'd love to hear from you. Investments include TLDC, Datacurve, and Science Machine.

Postman

Head of Product - Observability

Jun 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

  • I run engineering, product, and design for a department building the fastest, easiest way to find and fix failing APIs, building on top of my startup Akita.

Akita software

Founder and CEO

May 2018Jul 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Simplifying observability. Funded by Sequoia, a16z, and Kevin Durant. Acquired by Postman.

Carnegie mellon university

Assistant Professor

Aug 2016Aug 2020 · 4 yrs

  • Tenure-track faculty member in the Computer Science Department. Ran research group focused on programming language design and software verification. On leave as of September 2018.

Harvard medical school

Postdoctoral Researcher (Gap Year)

Sep 2015Aug 2016 · 11 mos

  • Deferred professor job at Carnegie Mellon to work on programming languages applied to protein signaling.

Facebook

Software Engineering Intern

Jul 2012Oct 2012 · 3 mos · Menlo Park

  • Designed and built verifier for backend privacy language. Obtained patent.

Microsoft corporation

2 roles

Research Intern - Research in Software Engineering

Jun 2010Sep 2010 · 3 mos

  • Worked on F*, a security-typed programming language now widely used in the verification community. Became one of the authors on the first F* paper.

Research Intern - Operating Systems

Jun 2009Sep 2009 · 3 mos

  • Co-developed Verve, the first operating system verified automatically end-to-end for type-safety. Received Best Paper Award at the Programming Language Design and Implementation conference 2010. Obtained patent.

Massachusetts institute of technology

Research Assistant

Aug 2008Aug 2015 · 7 yrs

  • PhD student in CSAIL. Named to MIT Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2016 for my thesis work.

Peerium inc.

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2008Aug 2008 · 2 mos

  • Worked on a dependently typed functional language written in Haskell.

Google

Software Engineering Intern - Video Search

Jun 2007Aug 2007 · 2 mos

  • Crawled the internet a bunch of times; built a bunch of classifiers.

Harvard medical school

Research Intern

May 2006Aug 2006 · 3 mos

  • Scraped the internet and implemented statistical methods to trace evolution and coevolution of a set of presynaptic receptors.

Bny mellon

Software Development Intern

Jun 2005Aug 2005 · 2 mos

  • Implemented standalone data mapping UI for understanding flows between databases.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D. — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Harvard University

Bachelor of Arts — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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