Walden Yan
Co-Founder at Cognition
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWalden Yan is a founder and engineer with nine years of experience building AI-enabled products and security tooling from research prototypes to startups in San Francisco. An IOI gold medalist and MIT PRIMES researcher, he blends deep algorithmic chops and cryptography/ML research with practical systems work—shipping projects like Cursor and leading program-verification efforts at DeepReason. He has repeatedly scaled teams and product delivery, from managing a 14-person agency that was acquired to co-founding early-stage ventures and an AI-focused startup, Cognition. Walden studies both how things should be done optimally and how they get done in the real world, bringing a designer’s sense for elegant solutions together with founder-level execution.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Avon High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Economics at Harvard University
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Github Skills (40)
theorem10
sampling7
react7
api6
marketplace6
vue6
profiling6
blockchain6
python6
javascript6
artificial-intelligence6
javascript-api5
profiler5
huggingface5
tron5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
walnutwaldo/walnutwaldo.github.io
Feb 2017 - Aug 2021
My (outdated) Personal Website that I never finished. This was one of my first HTML/CSS projects.
Contributions:85 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
cssjavascriptneverhtml-firstfinished
walnutwaldo/D-DALLE
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
D-DALLE brings together the world’s artist creativity using AI and Blockchain. D-DALLE's smart contracts constitute a fully-functional art marketplace. One side is powered by AI to create beautiful pieces of art, and the other side can place bounties for art they want to see or own.
Contributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 month
placemarketplaceartistartblockchain
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