David Byrd
General Partner at BlueYard Capital
Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Byrd is a General Partner focused on the future of computation with 13 years of experience spanning hands-on engineering, product leadership, and venture investing. He leads investments at BlueYard Capital after roles at Cambium and Acequia, backing companies across ML, quantum, and ASIC compute including Groq and IonQ. Before VC he built and led engineering teams—notably developing a compiler for Groq's ML ASIC and leading product work to create an optimization ASIC with Fujitsu—bringing deep technical credibility to hardware-heavy startups. He also founded and served as CEO of a developer tools startup that was responsibly wound down and returned capital, reflecting operational rigor and investor alignment. Based in Sooke, British Columbia, his individualized NYU studies in computer science and finance give him a rare blend of technical fluency and financial acumen that informs his thesis-driven investing.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine College PreparatoryIndividualized Study (Computer Science & Finance), Individualized Study (Computer Science & Finance) at New York University
Github Skills (78)
command-line-interface10
command-line-tool10
digitalocean-api10
digitalocean10
cli10
snap9
api9
nlp9
infrastructure9
binaries9
command-line9
homebrew9
administration9
natural-language-understanding9
macos9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thebyrd/onnx-mlir
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Representation and Reference Lowering of ONNX Models in MLIR Compiler Infrastructure
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pytorchrepresentationdeep-learningmlironnx-models
thebyrd/doit
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
pythonpentestingdigitalocean
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