Kyan Yang

Intern

San Francisco, California, United States2 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

Experienced in software engineering and data analysis.
Spearheaded content creation for technology biographies.
Developed innovative solutions in trust prediction and signal processing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with a focus on Data Science and Content Creation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringContent CreationData AnalysisData ScienceSignal Processing

Other Skills

Internal toolsProgramsEventsVenture scoutingPre-seed fundingCoding rules enforcementCode analysisML pipelinesDatabase infrastructureBiographies writingDocumenting life storiesTrust prediction modelsAudio segment analysisHierarchical association-rule miningSmartphone-based spectrophotometry

About

kyanyang.com dont hesitate to reach out — always love meeting new people twitter: https://x.com/kyanyang_ github: https://github.com/kyan-yang kyan [dot] yang [at] stanford [dot] edu

Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

10 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Afore capital

2 roles

Intern

Mar 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Internal tools, programs, and events.

Internal toolsProgramsEvents

Venture Scout

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Largest pre-seed fund ($500m+) — reach out if you are building something cool!

Venture scoutingPre-seed funding

Tanagram

Software Engineer

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025 · 3 mos

Deterministically enforced coding rules for agents, tailored to the needs of any team.
Built out core processing and code analysis logic, engineered ml pipelines for rule suggestion, improved internal testing workflows, and designed/implemented database infrastructures.
Worked directly with clients of multi-billion dollar valuations to develop solutions for customer needs.

Coding rules enforcementCode analysisML pipelinesDatabase infrastructureSoftware Engineering

Yesterday media

Biographies

May 2025 – Aug 2025 · 3 mos

Documenting the life stories of leading figures in technology and finance.
Spearheaded the biographies division, writing mini biographies to publish alongside interview episodes.
Guests include Joe Lonsdale (Palantir, 8VC), Guillermo Raunch (Vercel), Jack Altman (Alt Capital, Lattice), Kevin Hartz (Eventbrite, Xoom), Sean Rad (Tinder), and more.

Biographies writingDocumenting life storiesContent Creation

University of virginia

3 roles

Trust at First Sight? A Temporal Analysis into Modeling Perceptions of Trustworthiness

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr

Training custom trust-prediction models on different fixed-length audio segments and analyzing variances between user-claimed temporal alignment / model predicted alignment.

Trust prediction modelsAudio segment analysisData Analysis

A Multimodal and Multidimensional Investigation into Perceptions of Trust

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr

Summary: developed trust prediction models correlating 20 MDMT trust dimensions to facial, vocal, lexical, and sentiment features via novel hierarchical association-rule mining.
Personal Contributions: Engineered the acoustic feature-extraction stack (via Librosa/Parselmouth) and conducted mixed-effects and bias analyses.

Trust prediction modelsHierarchical association-rule miningData Science

Exploring Smartphone-based Spectrophotometry for Nutrient Identification and Quantification

Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 · 0 mo

Summary: proposed and validated a smartphone-based spectrophotometer to enable the at-home verification of vitamin concentrations through personal phones.
Personal contributions: developed the signal processing pipeline to convert diffraction images into calibrated absorbance spectra. Built analysis routines (peak detection, feature extraction, and Lambert-Beer modeling) to evaluate the system against a benchtop spectrophotometer.

Smartphone-based spectrophotometrySignal processingSignal Processing