Phillip Yan is the CEO of Maingen (YC S26), which builds evals and RL environments from real industrial operations to train frontier models. Before that he was a software engineer at Coinbase (institutional crypto financing) and 0x, worked on power markets at Axpo U.S. and RF machine learning at Expedition Technology, and was a technical advisor intern at Scale AI. He studied Computer Science and Math at Columbia.
Phillip Yan is the CEO of Maingen (YC S26), which builds evals and RL environments from real industrial operations to train frontier models. Before that he was a software engineer at Coinbase (institutional crypto financing) and 0x, worked on power markets at Axpo U.S. and RF machine learning at Expedition Technology, and was a technical advisor intern at Scale AI. He studied Computer Science and Math at Columbia.
Career
Phillip Yan holds a BA, Computer Science and Math from Columbia University.
CEO at Maingen from 2026-06 to Present
Software Engineer at Coinbase from 2025 to 2025 in San FranciscoInstitutional Crypto Financing
Software Engineer at 0x from 2025 to 2025 in San FranciscoBest-execution routing and exchange integrations ($150M+ TPV).
Software Engineer at Axpo U.S. from 2024 to 2024Power Markets
Machine Learning Engineer at Expedition Technology from 2024 to 2024RF machine learning for IARPA.
Technical Advisor Intern - Generative AI at Scale AI from 2024 to 2024
Software Engineering Intern at Daylight Computer from 2023-06 to 2023-09