# Daniel Yin > Founder, CEO at Tepan Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/danielyin I create products that simplify the right things to ultimately enrich people's experiences. Having lived in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, I have a rich understanding of international cultures, trends, and human behaviors. I have been making things people want since very young. At 13, I built and ran two profitable original sandbox gaming servers and their communities with over 275k combined registered users and over 70k paying ones. I was offered product manager positions by two gaming giants, Tencent and Netease, before graduating high school. In high school, I started 2 popular student societies in problem-solving through product design and engineering, generating patents and awards like the Red Dot Award - best of the best. I have industry experience in the consumer electronics field from working for big techs and unicorns. I helped Xiaomi generate top-priority consumer electronics patents and led projects in industrial design, UX, product design, and prototyping at hardware unicorn Xreal in its incubator stage. I have since founded two profitable consumer physical product businesses. I am now returning to my calling in life. I started cooking family dinners when I was 8 y.o. and my first dream was to become a chef. I had the opportunity to cook and learn at a Michelin-star fusion restaurant and I create original fusion recipes in my spare time. I'm now combining my love for cooking, robotics, AI, and innovative industrial design to flip the multi-trillion-dollar consumer food market upside-down. ## Work Experience ### Founder, Product Design Engineer @ Tepan Co Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States [Incognito] Tepan is an automatable all-in-one home kitchen. Just provide raw ingredients and Tepan will prepare a full gourmet meal complete with meat, side veg, and a pan sauce while leaving behind a spotless kitchen. With both hardware and AI engineered from first principles to be minimal, self-cleaning, versatile and able to cook at a Michelin-level, we have since received investments from the #1 market leaders in kitchen electronics in the US and China. ### Founder, Product Design Engineer @ Inoka Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom Making face masks easier to reuse than to dispose of: Inoka Mask Safe is the first complete solution for safely carrying, storing, and sterilizing face masks for reuse. The product was tested by a third-party government-level microbiology laboratory and recommended by leading covid, facemasks, and environmental researchers. Within a year Inoka was able to gather hundreds of affiliates and 6000 orders. ### Co-founder, Head Of Product Design @ AmbiencePPE Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Led user-driven iterative design, DFM, DFA, Manufacturing, brand and packaging design at a joint venture with Vancouver based dentist Dr. Scott Yamaoka and Ex-Dyson design engineer Zachery Yamaoka with the mission to produce best-in-class user-driven face shields that work seamlessly with the dental workflow and equipment like the dental loupes and light. Ambience is the face shield of choice with over half of the dental schools and public health institutions in Canada. With hundreds of testimonials from dental professionals and been voted best product of the year by 4 highly influencial dentist communities and magazines in north America. ### Product Designer #1 (wore hats like PM, ID, Developer and more) @ Nreal Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 XREAL (Formerly Nreal) is one of the newest consumer electronics unicorns with an AR Glasses global market share of over 83%. Its AR products Nreal Air and Light consistently ranks #1 in sales in the AR category on the biggest online retail platforms (Amazon, Taobao etc) in the US, EU, China and Japan, amassing great reviews. I was with the startup while it was being incubated at Xiaomi's Milab (~10 people team in 2018) and during its debut at CES2019, where we won the "Best Startup" award. I did a plethora of work for the budding startup, e.g.: - Author of the Nreal Design Doc and Internal Design Guidelines. - Conducted user discovery and defined upcoming products. - Developed the First Mobile to Glasses Interface Demo - Led industrial Design & prototype manufacture of the Nreal Controller, shown on CES and AWE - Led UI/UX Design for the first version Nreal Launcher - Independent FEA, Thermal Analysis on Nreal Computing Unit - Led industrial design concept exploration for the Nreal Computing Unit ### Research Intern @ Imperial College London Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | London, England, United Kingdom Individual research, design and Iterative prototyping of an innovative modular microcontroller button system connected through conductive threads. Supervised by Dr. Rebecca Stewart. ### Product Design Manager @ Xiaomi Technology Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China - Led team of 4 developers at Xiaomi's Future Explorations Lab (MiLab), Xiaomi's standalone lab in exploring Robotics and XR. - Mainly in charge of incubating Nreal(XREAL) and Segway Robotics. - Designed and led the development of several user scenario demos for Nreal and Segway's service robot. - Led user discovery & conceptualized the Nreal Air glasses, which has a natural and casual look while shredding all SLAM hardware making it lighter and much cheaper. Discovered that by focusing on 2D use cases like watching movies on an airplane, or playing mobile games laid down in bed was a much more immediate benefit to the users than AR applications overlaying 3D objects in the real world (which frankly, nobody wants). The Nreal Air has since vastly out-performed Nreal's first AR product the Nreal Light and helped Nreal amass a whopping 83% market share in AR glasses. - Generated highest priority patent as 1st author: WO2020258555A1, US20200409482A1, EP3757724A1, CN110134197A/U, JP7189891B2, KR102351393B1, RU2738725C1 ### Product Manager @ Tencent Games Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai City, China - Invited by Tencent Games with roughly 3x entry-level pay to help with their efforts incubating a new sandbox game engine similar to Roblox. - Work involved talking to users/creators, cultivating a creator community, high-level product analysis and product design according to feedbacks and behavioral data. - Led a team of 9 product planners, operations and engineers. ### Full-Stack Developer @ Donaco LTD Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 - Microsoft Imagine Cup UK National Champions (I built the demo) ### Founder, Chair @ Creative Design Studio SCIE Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Organized a team of over 30 students working on topics including discovering daily problems, using them as a starting point for ideas generation, product illustration using Rhino and Keyshot, prototyping and patenting. Over the 3 years period we created over 30 brilliant projects, hosted 5 exhibitions and created the world's youngest Red-Dot Best of the Best winner. I was mainly involved with 7 of these projects. ### Founder, chair @ Creative Engineering Workshop - Shenzhen College of International Education Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Organized a team of over 20 students to realize some of the more engineering-heavy ideas generated by the Creative Design Studio SCIE. We worked on topics including the basics of electronics, building 3D printers from scratch, and being creative about 3D printers, making them bigger, faster, and more reliable. Final results include a lazer-cut 3D printer based on the prusa-i3 model, a mini and giant core-XY 3DPrinter, robots for robotic competition, and prototyping half a dozen products from the product design studio. ### Product Design Engineer @ Makeblock Co.,Ltd. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ### Founder, Developer @ DanCraft Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Moderators and Builders: 50+ Registered users: 76,000+ (over 6 months of Beta) MAU: 8k (peak online limited by server load) I sadly had to shut down the server after only 6 months of operating due to pressure from the penultimate year of highschool i.e. college applications while having founded 2 student societies. Dancraft (Another Axis) was the very first Minecraft MMORPG for China, opened in 2012. The server had a stunning map and dozens of new class systems, quests, interactions, items and even magic spells coded into the game, with its promo vid hitting 300k views in just a week. It had a complete story for the world of Gloricia, which the player gradually find out is secretly a "second try" creation of Earth by Britha the goddess of Nature and Balance, one that she kept for herself away from all the other gods. Through a series of quests, players find out that long ago, Britha and her brother Kelthos, the god of intellect and greed carried out an experiment and created Earth. They wanted to know that, if given freedom of thought, an extremely quick flow of time and the ability to multiply. If humans could surpass the intelligence of the gods. This way, Britha and kelthous could use them to surpass godhood. (essentially what we humans are doing with AI right now). However, that experiment failed with the humans destroying Earth before managing to do develop intellect superior to the gods. ​During the experiment, Britha could not stop herself from beginning to develop emotions to the creatures of earth. During the last days of earth, she secretly removed a men and women and created a new world within her own dimension, calling it Gloricia. This time, hoping only for peace and comfort. But will her brother Kelthos allow the experiment to end like this? ### Chef Assistant @ Mélisse Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 ### Co-founder, Game designer @ Minr Minecraft Minigames Server Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Registered users: 200k+ One of Minecraft's first popular original minigames servers that has stood the test of time. ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering in Master of Engineering, Design Engineering Imperial College London ### A-level (UK highschool curriculum) in Further Maths, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology Shenzhen College of International Education ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dy316 --- Source: https://flows.cv/danielyin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/danielyin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13