Devon Yang co-founded Vesta with Mike Yu in 2020 and serves as CTO, building an AI-native loan origination system for mortgage lenders. He was Blend’s first engineering hire and later an engineering group manager, helping scale its lending platform over eight years. Earlier, he worked on Microsoft Azure. He studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and writes about combining rules, AI models, and workflow orchestration to automate lending.

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Devon Yang co-founded Vesta with Mike Yu in 2020 and serves as CTO, building an AI-native loan origination system for mortgage lenders. He was Blend’s first engineering hire and later an engineering group manager, helping scale its lending platform over eight years. Earlier, he worked on Microsoft Azure. He studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and writes about combining rules, AI models, and workflow orchestration to automate lending.

Career

Devon Yang studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Co-Founder and CTO at Vesta from 2020 to Present
Engineering Group Manager at Blend from 2012 to 2020
Software Development Engineer, Windows Azure at Microsoft until 2012
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From Rules to Intelligence: How Automation Actually Scales in Lending

Devon’s essay on combining deterministic rules, AI models, and feedback loops to automate mortgage lending.

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2024 Tech Trendsetter: Devon Yang

HousingWire recognizes Devon’s work building Vesta’s loan origination platform and his earlier engineering career at Blend and Microsoft.

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Vesta’s launch and $35 million Series A

Co-founder Mike Yu recounts their time at Blend, founding Vesta in 2020, and raising funding to modernize mortgage infrastructure.

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