Summary
Jordan Yen is a software engineer with a decade of experience building AI and platform systems across startups and high-growth teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has recent hands-on roles spanning ML research, AI platform engineering, and product-focused software development at companies like Hyperlink, Algoverse, Scale AI, and the YC-backed AfterQuery. Jordan moves between research and production—designing RL environments, benchmarks, annotation platforms, and GenAI tooling—bringing both experimental rigor and pragmatic shipping discipline. He is incoming to Google in 2026, reflecting a track record of rapidly progressing into technically demanding roles. A UCLA graduate in Computer Science and Linguistics with a Data Science Engineering minor, he pairs language-aware thinking with scalable engineering. Outside the obvious résumé moves, his career shows a pattern of short, impact-focused stints that rapidly translate research ideas into deployable systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Oceana High School