David Byrd
General Partner at BlueYard Capital
Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Byrd is a General Partner with 14 years of experience at the intersection of deep-tech investing and software engineering, currently leading investments and strategy at BlueYard Capital. He blends hands-on engineering leadership—previously building compilers and ASIC-targeted toolchains at 1QBit and launching product teams at DigitalOcean—with venture experience sourcing early bets across compute, quantum, and ML hardware. David has operated on both sides of the table as a founder and CEO of developer tooling startup Bowery and as an investor at Acequia and Cambium, giving him a pragmatic perspective on product-market fit and technical due diligence. Based in Sooke, BC, he favors frontier computation plays (Groq, IonQ and others in his portfolio) and brings the rare combination of compiler-level technical depth and deal-making instincts. An uncommon detail: he has led teams that collaborated with major hardware partners (Fujitsu, Groq) to co-design ASIC-backed solutions, underscoring his ability to translate research-grade systems into investable products.
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 (74)
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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