David Z. Ye

• Building a platform for long-form content in the age of AI, focused on cutting through the noise.

• Founded software consultancy helping early-stage startups maintain implementation velocity while keeping their engineering team lean.
• Past clients include startups working in healthcare, web3, and AI-based social media.
• Deliverables have included building out analytics pipelines, fixing cloud performance issues, spinning up new customer-facing services and feature development.

• 2nd hire at Sequoia-backed startup building privacy-preserving infrastructure for web3 companies. Acquired by Stripe in 2025.
• Designed and implemented initial API for user data storage and retrieval, fixed performance bottlenecks, created demos and docs, and built the initial team.
• Product responsibilities included market research, prototyping, and user design as part of the company's successful pivot into the authentication space.
• Full-stack development using Golang for backend and TypeScript for Node and browser packages.

• Early engineer on the Perception team working on vision and data infrastructure.
• Led redesign of labeling pipeline to accommodate new target capabilities including long-range perception and right-on-red maneuvers.

• Worked on a 10-person software team within a stealth robotics startup in X on robotic planning and simulation.

• Worked on ML models for ads targeting based on Gmail data.
• Led the "Similar Audiences" project for targeting an ads audience similar to an input set of audiences.

• Built and maintained machine learning models for user modeling, focused on tuning models to match Nielsen data.

• GPA: 5.0 / 5.0

• Took a sabbatical from writing software in 2021 to teach English in Spanish secondary schools.
• Taught programming classes as part of Stanford's Code-in-Place program.
• Teaching assistant for the Microcomputer Project Lab (6.115) at MIT.

Programming

Awards

• Two-time qualifier for United States American Math Olympiads (USAMO)
• IEEE PES (Power Electrical Society) Scholar
• Intel International Science and Engineering Fair finalist