Michael Yuan
Venture Partner at Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yuan is a venture partner and entrepreneur with nine years of focused experience building and investing in infrastructure for AI and distributed systems. He founded Second State, the team behind WasmEdge—one of the most widely deployed WebAssembly runtimes used to run AI workloads on millions of machines—and has authored or led seven software engineering books. A Linux enthusiast and systemd contributor, Michael has deep systems-level expertise, having improved core network configuration tooling in the flagship systemd project. He blends technical leadership with operator-scale productization, co-founding organizations across blockchain, healthcare, and open-source AI, and co-founding the GOSIM Foundation to grow community events in Rust and AI. Michael holds a PhD in Astrophysics from UT Austin, an uncommon academic background that surfaces in his methodical approach to complex engineering and research-driven product decisions.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at The University of Texas at AustinBSc, Astronomy, BSc, Astronomy at Nanjing University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
c1710
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network-configuration10
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administration10
c1110
admin10
sys10
filesystem9
file-management9
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
YHNdnzj/systemd-cleanup-pacman-hook
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
Stop and disable systemd units before removing packages
Contributions:39 commits, 18 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pacman-hooksystemdsystemd-unit
YHNdnzj/btrfs-snapshot
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:208 commits, 194 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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