Summary
Ted Yu is an investment director and seasoned project manager with 13 years of experience bridging high-tech manufacturing, electronic consumer goods, and early-stage investing in Shenzhen. He combines hands-on engineering know-how (Vanderbilt B.E. in Mechanical Engineering) and advanced project management (GWU Master’s, 4.0 GPA) to lead systems integrations—ERP, MES, PLM/PDM—and operational transformations across global manufacturing footprints. As a founder and product builder, he shipped an ANPR-based parking management app and led UX development in Swift, illustrating his ability to translate business needs into technical products. At Decent Capital he focuses on niche, hardware-adjacent startups, leveraging deep domain experience from roles at Genbyte, A.O. Smith, and construction project leadership. New to machine learning but active on GitHub as a software engineer exploring path routing, he brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary mindset that accelerates early-stage technical teams toward manufacturable products.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Chicago
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai Qibao High School
Master’s Degree, Project Management, 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Project Management, 4.0/4.0 at The George Washington University - School of Business
Sonderborg State School
B.E, Mechanical Engineering, B.E, Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University
English, Chinese, Danish