Alex Yang

Co-founder & CEO at Tapioca

Alex Yang is the Co-founder & CEO of tapioca, a tech-enabled recruiting company that helps funded startups with their hiring, especially in software engineering. He is also an Angel Squad Member at Hustle Fund, a seed-stage venture capital firm.1

Key Experiences

Co-founder & CEO at tapioca (March 2021 - Present): Tapioca helps startups with their hiring, particularly in finding founding engineer-caliber candidates who are mission-driven, want ownership, and are familiar with the pace of a VC-backed startup.1
Founder Fellowship at On Deck (April 2021 - June 2021): On Deck is a community that brings together top talent to help founders in the early stages of building their startups.1
Director of Talent and VP of Engineering at Simprints (September 2020 - March 2021, November 2018 - August 2020): Simprints is a non-profit building biometric technology for global development. Alex led the people and process functions of the engineering team, managing up to 10 engineers and designing hiring systems to help the company scale.1
Partner at dupont studios (February 2017 - October 2018): dupont studios was a web design and development agency that provided technology services to help non-technical founders launch and scale their businesses.1
Co-founder & COO at BaseRails (November 2013 - June 2018): BaseRails was a project-based video learning platform that taught 20,000 people how to code.1