Summary
Tengfei Yin is a founder and business-focused technologist with nearly a decade of experience turning biotech and life-sciences research into scalable B2B SaaS, cloud/HPC and AI products. As Co-Founder & CBO of Firmol and founder/advisor to 10+ AI/SaaS startups, he bridges GTM, product strategy and technical execution across drug discovery, chemoinformatics and bioinformatics domains. His PhD in genetics with a statistics minor underpins a rare combination of scientific rigor and data-driven product design, especially in healthcare and pharma workflows. Tengfei’s hands-on background ranges from software engineering at Genentech to leading Greater China operations for Seven Bridges, giving him both deep technical credibility and cross-market commercial experience. He’s also active in AI/ML applied to drug discovery and recommender systems, often advising on how to bring academic algorithms into compliant, production-ready pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), PhD Major in Genetics, Developmental, Cellular Biology. PhD Minor in Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), PhD Major in Genetics, Developmental, Cellular Biology. PhD Minor in Statistics at Iowa State University
Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology, Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology at Nankai University
Chinese, English