Ethan Yixing Jiang · Founder profile
Ethan Jiang
Founder of Tight Studio
I build AI-powered media products and the systems behind them. Today I’m building Tight Studio, a B2B SaaS product for creating polished product demos, tutorials, and presentations.
About
What I work on
My career has centered on AI products, media infrastructure, and the systems that make them reliable. At Facebook, I worked across conversational AI, recommendation systems, video encoding and infrastructure, and VR media. At Covariant, I built backend and infrastructure for AI robotics. At Klarity, I helped build LLM-based enterprise document extraction and later led engineering.
That combination now shapes how I build Tight Studio: as a founder-led SaaS business where product, engineering, distribution, and customer feedback stay closely connected. I care about both the low-level media pipeline and the B2B workflow around it—from encoding and export reliability to helping sales, marketing, support, and customer-success teams communicate clearly with video.
Background
AI, media, and SaaS systems
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Tight Studio
Founder
2025—present
Building an all-in-one screen recorder for founders, marketers, brand designers, sales, and customer success teams. The work spans product engineering, AI-assisted media, distribution, support, and direct customer feedback.
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Klarity
Early engineer and engineering manager
2021—2025
Joined as one of the first five engineers and helped build the core LLM-based document extraction engine and platform for onboarding large enterprise customers. Later built teams responsible for AI reliability, implementation, internal tools, and observability.
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Covariant
Early software engineer
2019—2021
Worked on AI robotics for warehouse logistics as one of the first ten engineers, across solutions, backend infrastructure, cameras, robot arms, and machine-learning systems as the company grew from Series A through Series C.
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Facebook
Senior software engineer
2016—2019
Built conversational-AI and recommendation systems, video encoding and infrastructure, and VR media including 360 video and 3D formats. Received a “Redefines Expectations” rating—roughly the top 1% of engineers—once during this period.
Earlier, I was a graduate student instructor for three systems courses at the University of Michigan.
Focus areas
Where I have depth
AI product systems
Conversational AI, LLM document extraction, robotics, and the infrastructure that makes AI products reliable.
Video encoding & media
Encoding infrastructure, dynamic 360-video streaming, VR media, recording pipelines, editing, and export quality.
Enterprise SaaS & B2B
Enterprise onboarding, reliability, implementation, observability, and workflows for customer-facing teams.
Founder-led product
Validation, direct customer support, product feedback, distribution, and turning technical capability into useful software.
Transparency
Editorial disclosure
I founded and build Tight Studio, the product discussed throughout this site. When an article written under my name evaluates a recording or editing workflow—including Tight Studio or another product—that relationship should be considered part of the context. The goal is to make practical claims that can be checked against the product, examples, or steps shown on the page.