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Staff engineer @ Ketch

I’m a staff engineer at Ketch, working on the backend of large-scale data privacy infrastructure. Before this I’ve done network engineering, product management, and founding/head-engineer roles at startups like July AI, where I built an AI-safety training platform full-stack from scratch. I love 0-to-1 work — taking something from nothing to real. What I most want to solve: painful problems, especially in the areas big tech ignores (the innovator’s dilemma) — bringing the ease and efficiency of software to them. I’m entrepreneurial by default, co-founding companies and shipping a steady stream of side projects. Links: yangtheman.com · github.com/yangtheman · blog.yangtheman.com