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.

[Email Ethan](mailto:ethan@tight.studio) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanjyx/) [X profile](https://x.com/ethanjyx) [GitHub profile](https://github.com/ethanjyx)

## 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.

## AI, media, and SaaS systems

1. ### 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.

2. ### 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.

3. ### 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.

4. ### 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.

## 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.

## 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.