About
Hankel Bao is CTO of Coldreach and formerly CTO of EasyJobs, with background in natural language processing and systems abstraction.
Founder at ColdreachYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Hankel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Coldreach's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Hankel can intro founders to Coldreach's investors below.
Coldreach's investors · 1
Co-founders at Coldreach
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Xiaohan ShenFounder
Experience
- Coldreach (YC W23)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2023 — presentLos Angeles, California, United States
- EasyJobsCo-Founder & CTO2021 — 2023Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- App AnnieQuality Assurance Engineer Intern2021
- Cross Impact LtdCo-Lead of Development Team2021
- Wisconsin AutonomousAlgorithm Engineer2019 — 2020Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- GhostBird OSDevOS Developer2013 — 2015Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Skills & more
Python (Programming Language)Natural Language Processing (NLP)1Large Language Models (LLM)1Systems DesignData AbstractionCommunication1Problem SolvingEngineeringComputer Graphics
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Hankel Bao?
- Hankel Bao is CTO of Coldreach and formerly CTO of EasyJobs, with background in natural language processing and systems abstraction.
- Where does Hankel Bao work?
- Hankel Bao is Founder of Coldreach.
- What companies did Hankel Bao found?
- Hankel Bao founded Coldreach.
- Where did Hankel Bao go to school?
- Hankel Bao studied at Y Combinator (W23); University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Data Science).
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