Kenny Yap
Chief Technology Officer at Knoon AI
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Yap is a product-driven CTO and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building consumer apps and AI workspaces from Singapore. He leads Journey, a journaling app used by millions and showcased by Apple, and co-leads Knoon, an agentic AI workspace focused on making AI accessible beyond programmers and enterprises. His work has earned Google Play Best Everyday Essentials recognition in 2023 and featured spots like Apple’s App of the Day and Hour of Code. Kenny blends hands-on engineering with product vision—shipping practical, user-focused solutions that scale—and often speaks on GenAI and developer adoption. An engineer by training from NUS, he brings a track record of turning academic projects (e.g., campus intelligence and security systems) into polished commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (43)
javascript10
artificial-intelligence10
chatgpt10
electron10
langchain10
css10
agent10
openai10
chrome10
html10
nodejs10
react10
chatbot10
backend-as-a-service9
nextjs9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
2-App-Studio/journey-desktop
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:22 releases, 23 commits, 28 pushes in 1 year 5 months
2-App-Studio/CommonMark-Java
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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