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Alan Yao 🏛️

Co-Founder @ AthenaHQ (YC W25)

United States
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Years Experience

13

Roles

38

Skills

3

Education

About

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Experience (13 roles)

AthenaHQ

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Current

AthenaHQ

2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos·San Francisco, California, United States

Founded in the 8th century BCE, AthenaHQ guided the rise of Athens and the blaze of the Renaissance. Across three thousand years it paved the way for the rise of generative engines. Backed by Y Combinator Skills: React Native · Project Planning · Deep Learning · JavaScript · Strategic Planning · Gi...

Profound · Part-time

Engineer

Profound · Part-time

Oct 2024 - Nov 2024 · 2 mos·New York, New York, United States

Skills: PostgreSQL · TypeScript

ServiceNow

Software Engineer II

ServiceNow

Jul 2024 - Jan 2025 · 7 mos·New York, New York, United States

Mobile Builders team -- full stack development

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Education (3)

Y Combinator

Y Combinator

2025 - 2025

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2020 - 2024

Mission San Jose High School

Mission San Jose High School

2016 - 2020

Grade: Poor grades

Skills (38)

Blockchain

Finance

DevOps Tool

GitHub

Product Management

Google Analytics

Other

Graphic DesignJournalismMicrosoft OfficeNegotiationKey Performance IndicatorsGenerative Engine OptimizationPerplexityHealthcareSoftware IndustryLeadership DevelopmentManagementContinuous ImprovementTeam LeadershipData ScienceMariaDBJavaTypeScriptAWSLambdaJavaScriptGraphQLPythonMySQLPostgreSQLReactGitHubHTML5CSS3CloudNode.jsGoogle AnalyticsGitChatGPTSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Hospitals
Certifications (8)

Full-Stack Engineer Career Path

Codecademy

Problem Solving (Basic) Certificate

HackerRank

Exploratory Data Analysis

SAS

Machine Learning

Codecademy

Hands-On PyTorch Machine Learning

LinkedIn

Computer Systems

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Intermediate Machine Learning Skill Path

Codecademy

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Specialist

AthenaHQ

Honors & Awards (3)

National AP Scholar

2023 Intern Hackathon - First Place

Associated with ServiceNow Scribe, a code editor for background scripts on the ServiceNow platform with custom syntax highlighting and autocomplete for ServiceNow’s proprietary scripting language. Integrated into newest ServiceNow release.

National Merit Semifinalist

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