# Kyan Yang

> CS + math student at Stanford, currently doing product marketing at Mintlify
> in San Francisco. Interested in data and RL post-training, agents, rhetoric,
> and work automation.

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## Pages

- [Home](/index.md): Short bio, interests, writings, and links.
- [Figure Skating](/figure-skating.md)
- [How I cook broccoli](/how-i-cook-broccoli.md)
- [26 values from 7th grade](/26-values-from-7th-grade.md)
- [Terminal](/terminal.md): A Claude-powered chat that answers questions about Kyan in his own voice.
- [Resume](/resume.pdf): Full CV as a PDF.

## Now

Product marketing at Mintlify, in San Francisco.

## Work

- Mintlify — Product marketing. Current.
- Lore — Software engineering intern, summer 2025. Lore deterministically
  enforces coding rules for AI agents, tailored per company. Optimized the automated
  PR review pipeline (gRPC/protobuf diff processing), built deterministic and LLM
  codebase pattern analysis (SCIP, tree-sitter), shipped a policy suggestion engine
  using HDBSCAN clustering, designed Postgres schemas, cut end-to-end test runtime
  by 32%, and onboarded two hires.
- Afore Capital — Venture scout, August 2025 to February 2026. Afore is the largest
  pre-seed fund at $500M. Built internal tools, ran events, sourced and interviewed
  early-stage startups, and grew the founders-in-residence pipeline.
- Yesterday Media — Ran the biographies division, May to August 2025. Wrote short
  biographies of leading tech and finance figures alongside the podcast, and hired
  and guided other writers.
- Human-AI Technology Lab, University of Virginia — Research intern, 2023 to 2025.

## Projects

- Mirage — First place, Modal inference track at TreeHacks, February 2026. Pipeline
  using Gemini, Veo 3.1, and Gaussian splatting on Modal to generate synthetic
  training data for autonomous driving and robotics.
- GoodLearn (goodlearn.org) — March 2026. Agent pipeline turning PDFs into staged
  lesson modules and question-led Socratic tutoring, with per-user course state in
  Postgres.
- Robinhood portfolio analytics — January to February 2026. Reverse-engineered
  undocumented Robinhood API endpoints into a Chrome extension with zero-click
  syncing, fully local storage and computation.
- FitRank — Selected by Shopify to publish in the official Shop app, July 2025.
  Social commerce platform on the Shopify API.
- Google Drive RAG extension — June 2025. Retrieval-augmented chat with LLM intent
  classification, dynamic metadata filters, BGE reranking, and inline citations
  pinned to exact quote locations.
- Mpox CNN — Regeneron ISEF finalist, 2022 to 2023. Custom CNN diagnosing mpox from
  primary morphology, deployed as a Flask app.

## Research

- Trust modeling over time — AAAI 2026
- Multimodal trustworthy behavior — ACM CSCW 2025
- Smartphone spectrophotometry for nutrient identification — IEEE PerCom 2025

## Education

- Stanford University — CS + math.
- George Mason University — Math coursework.
- James Madison High School — Vienna, Virginia.

## Stack

TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, Postgres, Redis, and a lot of LLM and agent
tooling.

## Elsewhere

- X: https://x.com/kyanyang_/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyan-yang/
- GitHub: https://github.com/kyan-yang/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kyanyang_/