Andrew Yan

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Co-Founder and CEO of AthenaHQ
Former Google Search product manager
Expert in Generative AI and Data Visualization

Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech and SaaS expert with strong capabilities in Generative AI and Data Visualization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative Engine OptimizationData VisualizationSoftware DevelopmentStatistical Modeling

Other Skills

Web DevelopmentPythonGenAI SearchOptimization ModelsGo (Programming Language)

About

Co-Founder and CEO of AthenaHQ, former Google Search product manager. Follow to stay on top of AI Search. My Background: When I was working on Google Search, I saw how the surface area of search changing faster than ever before. I founded AthenaHQ with Alan to help companies protect their brand image on ChatGPT and evolve with the marketing channel of tomorrow. Personal website: andrewyan.xyz Product, research, and engineering experience across Google, Deepmind, startups, and US Army Lab. Technical experience in C++, Python, Go, Java, C, React, Node.js, Flask, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, SQL, Sklearn, and OpenCV

Experience

Google

2 roles

Product Manager

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Google Search. 3rd party data acquisition and ingestion for the data that powers Google Search. APM.
Google Drive:
Launched 3 features in 3 months, improving sharing discoverability for >60% of Google Drive files, XB file opens/week, and XXB videos on Google Drive that are viewed XXXM+ times/week

Data VisualizationWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Software Engineering

Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 · 0 mo · Mountain View, California, United States

Google Cloud backend in C++
Automated reshaping 52 million entities with a single CLI command, shaving 20 engineering-hours per update
Implemented concurrency functionality, reducing time by 83%

Data VisualizationWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Athenahq

Co-Founder, CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, CA

Don't get left behind in GenAI Search. Helping brands increase leads from AI by up to 5x.
Empowering hundreds of global next-gen marketing teams at Fortune 500s, SoFi, Coinbase, PagerDuty, and more.
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Featured by Forbes, Wall Street Journal. Backed by YCombinator, FCVC (seed investor in Coinbase, Instacart, Webflow, Rippling), Red Bike Capital, current employees of OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and Eli Schwartz.

Generative Engine Optimization

Google deepmind

20% Project

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States

DeepMind Generative Media team

Vimeo

Security Engineering

Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 · 0 mo · New York, New York, United States

Trust and Safety team
Designed REST and gRPC API microservices in Golang and delivered in Docker
Worked on security tool to automate rating content moderation flags for Vimeo’s 200 million users and 60% of Fortune 500 companies

Software Development

Columbia | department of economics

Behavioral Economics Research

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo · New York, New York, United States

Researched why people make economic decisions the way we do
Focus on decision theory and information acquisition using techniques from optimal stopping problems, constrained optimization, and multi-armed bandit problems
Constructed statistical models and stochastic processes

Data VisualizationPythonStatistical Modeling

Us army

Cybersecurity Research Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 · 0 mo · White Sands Missile Range, NM

Cybersecurity at U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Data & Analysis Center

Almaworks accelerator

Director, Advisor of Almaworks Fellowship

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · New York, New York, United States

Launched internal in-house engineering team
Managed engineering, design, and business development hiring between Columbia undergraduates and NYC startups. 100+ positions matched
Led nationwide expansion to U.S. universities including Princeton, MIT, Penn, NYU, etc
https://alma.works

Data Visualization

Quantime

Growth and Software Engineering

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States

Quantime (acquired by Laurel 2023)
Built keyboard shortcuts feature and filtering mechanism in React, Material UI, Typescript, and Django
Applied functional programming to improve internal performance and speed optimizations
Wrote developer documentation to aid in onboarding new engineers

Web DevelopmentSoftware Development

Columbia technology ventures

Startup Accelerator Intern

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo · New York, New York, United States

Youngest of 6 students selected from 100+ Columbia undergraduate applicants
Authored a manual to be used in the creation of future Columbia University-affiliated startup accelerators

Geosafety

Co-Founder

Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 · 0 mo · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Developed an iOS app and wristwatch combo that helps combat pedestrian safety in unfamiliar areas
Built website, helped film product demo video, and worked on the iOS app in Swift
Awarded Best Prototype out of 15 teams at the Management and Technology Summer Institute (www.geosafety.ml)

Spork

Editor In Chief

Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs · Princeton, NJ

Led 20-person team to run the day-to-day of Spork, food and dining magazine serving 1600+ readers
Worked with local small business owners to fund printing of hundreds of magazines annually
Launched Stripe integration with e-commerce platform selling yearly subscriptions of Spork
Business Manager (2017-2019)