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Until Present
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.
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.
Career
Akita SoftwareFounder & CEO
2018 — 2023
Cosigns Received
Featured Media
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Building for the 99% Developers
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Angel Investors, A Field Guide
Jean Yang shares practical lessons from Akita’s investors and explains how she chooses and supports companies as an angel.
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How AI Helped Me Build This Blog
A firsthand account of using AI to build and debug a Hugo site, with lessons about technical fundamentals, available data and the limits of assistance.