Michael Yuan
Venture Partner at Second State
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.
9 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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configuration-manager10
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administrator10
network-configuration10
administration10
c1110
admin10
sys10
filesystem9
file-management9
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
systemd/systemd
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
The systemd System and Service Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3476 reviews, 42 commits, 1069 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on the back-end aspects of the project, contributing features related to managing network configuration files. They added functionality for editing, masking, and unmasking network configuration files, including support for different file types (.network, .netdev, .link). Furthermore, they refactored the code to improve modularity and maintainability by splitting functionalities into separate files and functions. The user's work involved the core infrastructure and tools within the project.
systemdclinuxinitservices
YHNdnzj/btrfs-snapshot
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:208 commits, 194 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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