Yan Sim

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Principal at Harborview Ventures | ex-SEEK

Harborview Ventures
Shenzhen, China · CST (UTC+8)
10+ years experience
Chulalongkorn University
English, Mandarin
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Overview

I invest in climate at Harborview Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 7 years before investing. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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venture capitalhardwareclimate techenergy

Experience

  1. Principal
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Harborview Ventures · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
    SEEK · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
    • Shipped 27 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
    Kakao · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
    • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 59 million requests a day.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
    Sony · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Shenzhen, China
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 18% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. Chulalongkorn University
    BEng, Business Administration
    2011 - 2015

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