Where does Lian Duan work?

Lian Duan is Founder of BuildJet.

Where did Lian Duan go to school?

Lian Duan studied at ETH Zürich (Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics); University of Zurich (Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics); East China University of Science and Technology (Bachelor of Science (BSc), Pharmaceutical Engineering).

Lian Duan

Founder

Founder at BuildJet

Berlin Metropolitan Area

FoundedBuildJet · YC

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226 people in our graph share verified history with Lian — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Maurin DaiunlockedLian: together at ETH Zürich (2012–2014)

×2Lian: together at ETH Zürich

×3Lian: together at EMBL

×6Lian: together at University of Zurich

About

Lian Duan holds a master's degree in bioinformatics from ETH. He previously worked as a Senior Full-stack developer at a German data privacy startup and served as CTO at Civey, a German market research firm, where he focused on infrastructure scaling.

Founder at BuildJet YC W23

Intro paths

Lian went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran BuildJet's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Lian can intro founders to BuildJet's investors below.

BuildJet's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at BuildJet

Adam ShiervaniFounder

Experience

BuildJetCo-Foundercurrent2023 — present
CiveyCTO2016 — 2023
ZenGuard GmbHSenior Fullstack Developer2014 — 2016Berlin, Germany
EMBLIntern2010
J&K ChemicalIntern Information Engineer2009
Metamolecular, LLCIndependent Contractor2009
Shanghai Titan ChemicalsPartner2007 — 2009

Frequently asked questions

Who is Lian Duan?: Lian Duan holds a master's degree in bioinformatics from ETH. He previously worked as a Senior Full-stack developer at a German data privacy startup and served as CTO at Civey, a German market research firm, where he focused on infrastructure scaling.
Where does Lian Duan work?: Lian Duan is Founder of BuildJet.
What companies did Lian Duan found?: Lian Duan founded BuildJet.
Where did Lian Duan go to school?: Lian Duan studied at ETH Zürich (Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics); University of Zurich (Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics); East China University of Science and Technology (Bachelor of Science (BSc), Pharmaceutical Engineering).

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Civey mafia2

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Adam ShiervaniCPOFounded BuildJet

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About

Founder at BuildJetYC W23

Intro paths

BuildJet's investors · 1

Co-founders at BuildJet

Experience

Frequently asked questions

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia10,230

ETH Zürich mafia196

University of Zurich mafia35

Civey mafia2

East China University of Science and Technology mafia2

Same school

Also attended ETH Zürich381

Also attended University of Zurich133

Also attended East China University of Science and Technology6

Shared employers

Also worked at BuildJet1

Also worked at Civey1

Also worked at ZenGuard GmbH3

Also worked at EMBL20

Founder at BuildJet YC W23