Collin Yen
Cofounder at Stealth
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCollin Yen is an experienced software leader and founder with 11 years of building consumer-facing, large-scale mobile and backend systems, now cofounding a stealth startup in the New York City area. He led Instacart’s Shoppers organization overseeing ~60 engineers across iOS, Android, backend and ML, driving major fulfillment cost savings and expanding Pickup into a multi‑billion dollar business segment. Previously at LinkedIn he scaled teams and launched high-impact features like the hashtag ecosystem and ML-driven follow recommendations that materially increased engagement. Collin combines product instincts with deep operational delivery—rewriting 400+ mobile screens, integrating vendor pipelines for shopper onboarding, and standing up new AI/ML investments for shopper experiences. He hires and develops strong leadership benches, turning senior ICs into managers and building cross-functional partnerships across product, ops, and data science. A UCLA summa cum laude CS graduate, he blends startup founder grit with proven enterprise delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish
Github Skills (1)
wordpress2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sumo2478/collin_setup
Aug 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 9 months
sumo2478/CS144
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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