/People

Devon Yang

InvestorFounder

Founder at Vesta

Bellevue, Washington, United States

FoundedVesta

Find your path to Devon

1,472 people in our graph can introduce you to Devon.

Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Devon

  • Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to Devon. We find them
  • 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes you can't see from your own inbox or LinkedIn
  • Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone

Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.

About

Devon Yang is Co-Founder and CTO of Vesta, a lending technology company. Previously, Yang joined Blend as its first engineer and led its platform engineering group over nearly eight years, during which the engineering organization grew from one to more than 100 engineers, and earlier worked as an engineer on Microsoft's Azure Fabric Controller team. Yang graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 with a focus in fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Founder at Vesta

Intro paths

→

In turn, Devon can intro founders to Vesta's investors below.

Co-founders at Vesta

MYMike Yu
Mike YuFounder
KEKelly Erhart
Kelly ErhartCofounder
DY
Devon YanFounder

Experience

  1. VestaCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2020 — present
  2. BlendEngineering Group Manager2012 — 2020San Francisco, CA
  3. MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer II2010 — 2012
  4. MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer Intern2009
  5. Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2008
  6. Wyndham WorldwideJunior Programmer2007
  7. Carnegie Mellon University, Department of ECE, Professor Bruce KroghResearch Assistant2006 — 2007

Skills & more

Distributed Systems13Software Engineering11Cloud Computing5Fault Tolerant Systems1Algorithms6C#8Windows Azure5Scala1Java4Embedded Systems1Operating Systems2Scalability4
+8 moreDatabasesSQLNode.jsFootballTable TennisSoftware DevelopmentJavaScriptJSON

From Devon's professional profile.

Investments

Investor

Tiny

Per curated public sources.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Devon Yang?
Devon Yang is Co-Founder and CTO of Vesta, a lending technology company. Previously, Yang joined Blend as its first engineer and led its platform engineering group over nearly eight years, during which the engineering organization grew from one to more than 100 engineers, and earlier worked as an engineer on Microsoft's Azure Fabric Controller team. Yang graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 with a focus in fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Where does Devon Yang work?
Devon Yang is Founder of Vesta.
What companies did Devon Yang found?
Devon Yang founded Vesta.
What companies has Devon Yang invested in?
Investments tracked here include Tiny.
Where did Devon Yang go to school?
Devon Yang studied at Carnegie Mellon University (M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Biomedical Engineering).

Founder mafias

Same school

Shared employers