Andrew Yan
Co-Founder, CEO at AthenaHQ
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Yan is a founder and product-minded engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and growth-facing products across startups and Google. As Co-Founder and CEO of AthenaHQ (YC W25), he helps brands get discovered across next-gen LLM-driven channels while drawing on prior product management work on Google Search and hands-on systems engineering at Google Cloud and Vimeo. He’s fluent in Ruby, React, TypeScript, Node and Go, and has delivered automation and concurrency improvements that saved engineering hours at scale. Andrew pairs academic rigor from Columbia and Oxford with applied research experience in behavioral economics and cybersecurity, and has a track record of launching teams and programs (Almaworks) that bridge students with startups. He often ships cross-functional solutions— from API and microservice design to product experiments—bringing a rare blend of growth, security, and low-level performance optimization to early-stage products.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Maths Philosophy, Maths Philosophy at University of OxfordPrinceton High SchoolManagement and Technology Summer Institute 2019, Management and Technology Summer Institute 2019 at University of PennsylvaniaW25, W25 at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Math and Computer Science (Joint), Bachelor's degree Math and Computer Science (Joint) at Columbia University
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
reselect10
recompose9
redux8
react7
redux-saga7
react-component6
saga6
emoji5
component-library3
react-components3
emoticons3
react-component-library2
twemoji2
language-design2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
strivert/react-reduxsaga-dating-web
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Dating web app implemented using React.js, redux, recompose, reselect, redux-saga, immutable.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
reactredux-sagasagareact-jsdating-web-app
strivert/react-native-tour-tracking
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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