Hank Yan

Hank Yan

Co-Founder & CTO

LocationBangkok, Thailand

OriginNYC, USA

hank@1unit.ai

BIO

As CTO with 10 years shipping software and systems and building with LLMs since GPT's earliest release, my work spans custom agent harnesses like Hermes and OpenClaw and orchestrating AI agents at scale on serverless infrastructure.

I currently run my own business shipping production apps across domains, from EV truck charging to Airbnb-style experience booking.

Alongside that technical depth in AI-native systems, I've lived the problem of tool sprawl and buried decisions firsthand and validated it.

Skills

Serverless Backend ArchitectureProduct DesignAI Agent OrchestrationFull-stack EngineeringLLM IntegrationBrain & System ArchitectureProduction DevOps

Responsibilities

  • Defining the technical direction and architecture of 1Unit
  • Maintaining code quality and engineering standards
  • Translating business requirements into reliable software
  • Mentoring and leading cross-functional development
  • Delivering the product from concept through deployment

AI Expertise

Custom agent harnesses (Hermes, OpenClaw)Multi-agent orchestration at scalePersistent memory systemsServerless AI infrastructureLLM app development since GPT-1AI-powered search & retrieval

Education

Queens College

Queens College

Bachelor's degree

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Cool things I built with AI

Before 1Unit, I built AI pets at scale, similar to Tamagotchi but powered by AI. Over 1000+ autonomous pets running concurrently on serverless infrastructure, with no always-on server. Each pet was its own agent with persistent state and behavior, and the hard part was orchestrating that many agents cheaply and reliably without paying for idle compute. That work directly shaped 1Unit. The same serverless orchestration patterns now power our agent layer, where UNI reads across your calls, notes, and contacts in a shared memory called Brains and surfaces the move you couldn’t see alone.

Completed projects

Rescharge

Rescharge

Live

Switzerland

Reservation platform for EV trucks, with onsite license plate recognition system

Ohana

Ohana

Live

Bangkok, Thailand

Unique local experiences mobile app.

Download on the App Store

Experience

Present

1Unit — Co-Founder & CTO

Technical direction, Brain & agent architecture, and engineering standards for the platform.

Present

Desociety — CTO

Shipping production apps across domains, from EV truck charging to experience booking.

10+ years

Software Developer

Multiple industries, Scalable systems, robust application architecture, and the full software development lifecycle.