Kai Yen
Principal EIR, CTO-in-Residence at Mach49
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Yen is an outcome-driven technology leader and serial founder with 11 years of experience building startups and venture-backed products, currently serving as Principal EIR and CTO-in-Residence at Mach49. He specializes in taking ambiguous early-stage ideas to market quickly and cost-effectively, using software, AI, and third-party tools to prioritize what truly moves the needle. As a repeat CTO and co-founder, he’s launched marketplaces, AI-driven outreach platforms, deskless workforce training tools, and local discovery apps, blending product-first instincts with hands-on engineering. Kai thrives on rapid iteration and customer feedback, favoring the excitement of first versions and pragmatic simplicity that reduces cognitive load for teams. Based in New York, he pairs venture-building experience inside large enterprises with startup speed, and is an obsessive learner who actively tracks the newest tools and libraries to accelerate execution.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Administration, BS Business Administration at University of California, Riverside
French
Github Skills (149)
postgresql10
csrf10
authentication10
bash10
deno-deploy10
integrations10
serverless10
spid10
auth10
nuxt-auth10
javascript10
solidjs10
browser10
api10
sql10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kyen99/periodic-table
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
kyen99/node-red-contrib-chatbot
Jan 2020 - May 2022
Visually build a full featured chat bot for Telegram, Facebook Messenger and Slack with Node-RED. Almost no coding skills required.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
full-featuredbotslack-bottelegrammessenger
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