Robert Yaman
Chief Executive Officer at Innovate Animal Ag
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Yaman is a founder and CEO focused on commercializing clean meat, combining 11 years of technical and ops experience to drive cost-down and market-ready premium meat snacks. He started his career as a self-taught software engineer who landed at Google within months of moving to the Bay Area, then pivoted into food tech where he built and ran operations for pilot production, finance, supply chain, and facilities at Mission Barns. As the first non-technical hire turned Director of Operations, he oversaw annual budgets of $10–20M and led facility buildouts—experience he now applies to Innovate Animal Ag. A Yale-trained philosopher and former professional choral singer, he brings an unusual mix of analytical rigor, creative discipline, and comfort with high-risk learning-by-doing. He also authors a clean meat science blog, signaling a commitment to both public education and practical product development.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA with honors Philosophy, BA with honors Philosophy at Yale UniversityHigh School Music Composition, High School Music Composition at Interlochen Arts Academy
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Github contributions (5)
robert-yaman/AudioNN
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:110 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
robert-yaman/dig-It
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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