David Yan
Founder at Tab Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Yan is a founder and full-stack engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building AI-powered products and production systems. He has led engineering and product efforts at companies from startups to autonomous vehicle and enterprise search teams, shipping features that drove contract wins and slashed backend latency by over 90%. His background spans robotics and deep RL research, secure decentralized services, and simulation tooling, enabling a pragmatic blend of research rigor and product-focused execution. At Glean he built deep linked citations that cited sentences and page-level links, and at Zoox he redesigned simulation triage UIs and authoring frameworks to improve team throughput. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and machine learning stacks, he combines founder instincts with hands-on engineering to move ambiguous ideas into deployed, impactful features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
Github Skills (42)
privacy10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
oasis8
ethereum8
autodoc8
programming-language7
golang7
go7
ros7
rust7
gps6
evm6
rust-wasm6
javascript6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
david-yan/CS110_starter_code
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
oasislabs/owasm-abi
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Parity WASM Abi (Legacy and new)
Contributions:17 PRs, 38 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
abi
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