Jean Yang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer working on AI for security at Meta. She previously led engineering and product for Postman's observability business after founding Akita, an API observability company acquired by Postman. Earlier, she was an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department and conducted research in programming languages and security. She invests in developer tools and infrastructure as an a16z scout.
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Head of Engineering and Product - Observability
Founder and CEO
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Researcher (Gap Year)
Research Assistant
Software Engineering Intern - Video Search
Software Development Intern
Doctoral studies in software
Master's studies in software
Bachelor's studies in software
