Michael Yuan
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Yuan is a technologist, entrepreneur, and investor with 19 years of experience who serves as Venture Partner at Susquehanna and founder/maintainer of Second State, the commercial steward of the WasmEdge runtime at the Linux Foundation/CNCF. He commercializes WebAssembly for cloud-native and edge AI, contributes bilingual documentation and examples to WasmEdge, and maintains starter templates that connect Rust/Wasm to Node.js. At GaiaNet.AI he builds agentic, on-device AI applications that combine personalized knowledge and skills with practical deployment. Trained as a PhD astrophysicist, Michael pairs rigorous research instincts with hands-on product engineering, uniquely bridging finance, deep tech, and startup ecosystems from Austin.
19 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
node-js10
documentations10
javascripts10
webassemby10
rust10
webassembly10
documentation10
get-started9
getstarted9
testing8
api-design7
apim7
api7
edge-computing5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
second-state/wasmedge-nodejs-starter
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
A template project to run Rust functions in Node.js through the Second State WebAssembly engine.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:139 commits, 3 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on modifying and testing the `node/test.js` and `node/app.js` files, likely to test the WebAssembly functions. These changes included updating dependencies, adding test cases, and modifying the output of the application. The user also introduced error handling and adjusted the code to use different libraries, indicating an effort to improve the application's functionality and robustness.
rustnode-jsrust-functionsjavascriptwebassembly
WasmEdge/WasmEdge
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:55 reviews, 54 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focus on adding documentation and examples to the WasmEdge project. Their contributions include creating "hello world" and reactor examples, and extensively adding and updating documentation for the project's structure, covering topics in Chinese and English. The user updated various documentation pages, including those related to installation, quickstart, and different aspects of the platform.
serverlessruntimedecentralizedwasmedgeedge-computing
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