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 BuildJetYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Lian went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
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
Co-founders at BuildJet
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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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