Google Drive, Product š¼
Led key features to enhance sharing and discoverability in Google Drive for hundreds of millions of users.
Hi! I'm Andrew Yan.
I'm a
- Lifelong Learner
- Technical Person
- Jazz Saxophonist
- Builder
Nice to meet you! š
I enjoy making things, whether that be software products, writing my thoughts, or composing songs. I have engineering, product, and cybersecurity experience at organizations from seed-stage startups to big tech to government.
Currently, I am at Google as an APM working on multimodal content and vertical commerce experiences for Search. I graduated from Columbia, where I studied computer science and math š¦.
I am also a jazz saxophonist š· and formerly played in the band that inspired the Oscar-winning movie Whiplash.
So far, I have performed on 3 continents at venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Lincoln Center, Terminal Five, and American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Abbey Road Studios in London. Music brings me a lot of joy and I have met some incredible people and played in some incredible venues from pop concert halls in front of thousands to a 500-year-old chapel.
Google Cloud, Software āļø
Wrote software for a CLI tool in C++ to automate GCPās new products testing suite as part of New Products Introduction team.
Vimeo, Trust and Safety š¬
Developed a microservice shipped to production to rate content moderation flags in Golang, Docker, and MySQL. Learned to love gophers.
DEVCOM-DAC, Cybersecurity šŗšø
Demonstrated proof-of-concept exploits and researched new attack surface areas in machine learning. Saw firsthand the unique cybersecurity challenges in the U.S. military.
Quantime, Growth and Engineering ā°
Growth and software engineering at Quantime (acq. Laurel 2023). Developed, coded, and shipped key features such as keyboard shortcut and filtering mechanism from ideation to implementation in React, Material UI, Typescript, and Django. My features were used in thousands of instances monthly.
I am thankful to the founders Suchit and Burke, who offered sage advice and encouragement along the way.
Almaworks, Lead š
On campus, I led and advised the Almaworks Fellowship, which brings together the top minds from universities across the nation such as Columbia, MIT, Princeton, UPenn. Almaworks Fellowship alumni have gone on to found their own startups, become founding engineers at startups, and include a Fulbright Scholar.
Behavioral Economics Research š§
In 2021, I worked as a research assistant at the Columbia Cognition and Decision Lab studying bounded rationality. I applied Bayesian decision theory to optimal stopping and multi-armed bandit problems.
Models used include drift-diffusion models (DDMs), Markov chains, constrained optimization, and recursive utility functions.
Mathematical Contest in Modeling š§®
In March 2021, I co-authored a paper on modeling Vespa mandarinia spread using Python, Keras, and various statistical methods. It received Honorable Mention out of 10,000+ teams at the International MCM 2021.
Paper accessed here
GeoSafety š
At the 2019 Management and Technology Summer Institute, I worked in a team of 5 to develop an iOS app and wristwatch combo in Swift that combats urban pickpocketing. Our product GeoSafety used geofencing and open source urban crime datasets to keep tourists safe in unfamiliar cities.
GeoSafety was awarded Best Prototype out of 15 teams at the Management and Technology Summer Institute. See me try to act in this promotional video.
E-Insights š
Built an e-sports analytics platform E-Insights using Node.js, web sockets, and sentiment analysis to analyze livestream comments in real-time.
E-Insights won Best E-Sports Hack at the 2020 Wallifornia ESports and MusicTech Hackathon, competing against participants from 22 countries and won coaching sessions with Leansquare Accelerator. Devpost submission here.
Travel š
I like learning more about the world. Here are some stats for those quantitatively-inclined:
Music š·
I have performed with bands such as the Princeton High School Studio Band, New Jersey All State Jazz Ensemble (first tenor sax), Google Jazz Band (GSharp), and Oxford University Jazz Orchestra (OUJO).
At Columbia, I played in the jazz, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian ensembles. In high school, I also led my own group performing around our local area.