Ken Yeung
Co-Founder & CEO at WATI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKen Yeung is a serial founder and engineering leader with 11 years of startup experience who currently leads WATI as Co-Founder & CEO, scaling an AI-native WhatsApp-based customer engagement platform used by 10,000+ businesses across 150+ countries. He combines deep hands-on engineering (C#, full-stack web) and machine-learning experience from roles at Saxo Bank and Quantize Analytics with product and go-to-market rigor proven by enterprise sales to Fortune 500 clients. Ken has built and exited enterprise AI assistants and developer-focused SaaS, secured backing from top-tier investors including Sequoia and Tiger Global, and launched WATI Academy to train thousands in conversational commerce. An active contributor to open-source (notably full-stack work on an ASP.NET marketplace) he still codes across backend and frontend to drive product velocity. Based in the Bay Area with an M.Sc. from DTU and a B.Eng. from HKUST, he’s known for turning algorithmic and multilingual NLP research into production-ready customer experience platforms.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of DenmarkHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
asp-net10
mvc10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
html8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
entity-framework7
rest-api7
css6
javascript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
beyourmarket/beyourmarket
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
OpenSource ASP.NET to build your own marketplace
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to the backend and frontend of the ASP.NET marketplace project. Their work included fixing issues related to container readiness, merging changes from the development branch, and refactoring code to enhance functionality. They also implemented features such as checking payment plugin enablement, fixing title issues, and adding support for listing reviews. This involved modifications to both backend controllers and frontend views.
marketplacedotnetasp-net-mvcaspweb-application
ClareAI/nlu_engine_comparison
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
NLU Engine Comparison between IBM Conversation, Wit.AI, API.AI and Clare.AI
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
nlpapistarcraftnlunlu-engine
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