Jie Yang
Co-Founder And CTO at InsurPal
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJie Yang is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder/CTO with over 15 years of deep expertise in web search, computational advertising, recommendation systems, and knowledge graphs. He has repeatedly moved research-grade ML and ranking models into production, most recently building an AI-first insurance platform while previously launching Facebook’s real-time ads recommendation product that generated roughly $500M in annual revenue. His career spans technical leadership roles at Facebook, Microsoft, Taobao, and Baidu, where he led teams across retrieval, ranking, relevance, and novel link-analysis approaches at scale. Jie combines a strong academic foundation (PhD in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo) with hands-on engineering—designing end-to-end search stacks, retrieval flows, and ML pipelines that improve user experience and business impact. He’s known for starting systems from zero (e.g., search ads ranking and real-time recommendation) and for translating complex research into pragmatic product features. Based in the United States, he brings a rare blend of product-minded entrepreneurship and deep algorithmic rigor.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Peking University
Japanese, EnglishGithub contributions (4)
midij/img_sim
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 46 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
midij/family-calendar
Sep 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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