Summary
Shihan Wan is a software leader and founder with 10 years of experience building AI-infused infrastructure and developer platforms, currently working on reinforcement learning at Fleet AI in New York. He co-founded and sold Xeol after raising $3.2M and shipping an AI agent that automates discovery and repair of end-of-life open source dependencies, demonstrating product-to-exit execution. His background spans founding-engineer and engineering-manager roles at Ada and platform leadership at Electric, covering backend, frontend, DevOps/SRE, and security disciplines. A Y Combinator alum (S23) and University of Toronto computer science graduate, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product building. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic shipper who "tends his code garden," balancing code craftsmanship with scalable systems thinking.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
S23, S23 at Y Combinator
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, French, Chinese