Avery Yip
Director of Engineering @ Handshake AI
2025Director of Engineering· Handshake
Founder · since 2021Company
Handshake
Role
Director of Engineering
current
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work historyProfile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact
Experience
Career
2025Handshake
Director of Engineering · 2025 – Present
2024Scale AI
Human Data · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2024 – 2025
2021Vessel (YC W22)
Co-founderCo-Founder and CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2021 – 2024
2020Productiv
Software Engineer · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2020 – 2022
2019Uber Freight
Software Engineer · 2019
2018Point72
Analyst · 2018
2017Salesforce
Data Scientist · 2017 – 2018
Bio
Avery Yip is the co-founder of Vessel. Avery previously worked at Productiv as a backend/infra engineer in the SaaS management space. When he started at Productiv, it was Series A with less than 10 customers and he helped grow it to Series C with over 100 customers. He earned a degree in Computer Science & Data Science from UC Berkeley.