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Alan Yao

Co-Founder @ AthenaHQ

Companies: AthenaHQ
Education: Y CombinatorMission San Jose High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Alan Yao co-founded AthenaHQ as CTO, building tools that help brands get discovered in AI search. Previously a platform engineer at ServiceNow and founder of Cribbly, he has built with GPT-2 since 2020 and formerly played jazz trombone. The aim of nature is to imitate software.

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AthenaHQ

Jan 2024 — Present

Co-Founder, CTO/CMO

Co-Founder, CTO/CMOAthenaHQ · Jan 2024 — Present

ServiceNow

Aug 2024 — Aug 2025

SWE II

SWE IIServiceNow · Aug 2024 — Aug 2025

Cribbly.io

Aug 2023 — Aug 2024

Founder

FounderCribbly.io · Aug 2023 — Aug 2024

ServiceNow

May 2023 — Aug 2023

Software Engineer

Software EngineerServiceNow · May 2023 — Aug 2023

ServiceNow

May 2022 — Aug 2022

Software Engineer

Software EngineerServiceNow · May 2022 — Aug 2022

Amazon

May 2020 — Aug 2020

FC Associate

FC AssociateAmazon · May 2020 — Aug 2020

Y Combinator

Mission San Jose High School

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelors, Mathematics

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Alan explains how pruning redundant AGENTS.md instructions clarified engineering constraints and the treatment of uncertain security findings.

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