Ziang Xie
CEO at Sapling Intelligence
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiang Xie is the CEO and co-founder of Sapling.ai, a profitable Y Combinator-backed startup building a language model toolkit for enterprise applications, with 15 years of experience in AI and software engineering. He combines deep research credentials—a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley—with hands-on product and engineering leadership. Early research roles include a Google Brain internship working on RNN-based text-to-speech and a software engineering stint at NASA JPL, showing comfort across both cutting-edge ML research and robust systems engineering. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on turnkey LLM integration for enterprises and frequently vets startup hiring through Sapling’s careers pipeline. Notably, Sapling is profitable while tackling the practical challenges of deploying LLMs in production, reflecting his emphasis on sustainable product-market fit. You can reach him directly for enterprise integrations at zxie@sapling.ai.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS EECS, Bachelor of Science - BS EECS at University of California, BerkeleyY CombinatorDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (30)
classification10
reinforcement-learning9
machine-translation9
corenlp8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
computation-graph7
speech-recognition7
nlp6
jekyll6
segmentation6
tensorflow6
parsing6
natural-language-processing6
parser6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zxie/nn
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:58 commits in 7 months
amaas/stanford-ctc
Aug 2014 - Feb 2016
Neural net code for lexicon-free speech recognition with connectionist temporal classification
Contributions:66 commits, 5 pushes, 12 comments in 1 year 6 months
classificationspeech-recognition
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