Michael Yan
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yan is an AI and machine learning leader with 10 years of experience building applied GenAI and ML products that move from prototype to revenue-generating production. As co-founder of NexxOne.ai and former Director of Data Science at Mistplay, he has led teams and architected LLM-powered systems, retrieval-augmented pipelines, and multi-agent workflows that drove tens of millions in incremental revenue. He combines hands-on engineering—covering model selection, latency optimization, prompt orchestration and voice-first conversational interfaces—with executive-level AI strategy and investor-facing product roadmaps. His background spans dynamic pricing, large-scale NLP, and automated trading systems, showing a consistent pattern of translating messy real-world data into operational ML. Based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, he brings a practitioner’s focus on integration (not standalone demos) and a stated ethic of “AI for Humanity” that guides product choices.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Economics & Statistics, Bachelor Economics & Statistics at Beijing Forestry UniversityMaster Statistics, Master Statistics at Brock University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
shiny10
htmlwidgets10
highcharts10
wrapper10
cran10
r9
visualization9
firebase8
r-package7
python7
android6
plumber5
api5
webhooks5
microsoft-teams4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wwwjk366/think.data.science
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
repository for my personal website
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
wwwjk366/gower
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Python package for Gower distance
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
python
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