Andy Yu
Chief Treadmill Officer at Comma Capital
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Yu is a software engineer and co-founder with seven years of experience building backend systems, distributed databases, and consumer fitness products from Montreal. He co-founded Liftoff (where he remains Chief Treadmill Officer) after contributing to core query execution at Yugabyte and helping power Facebook's Posts Publishing infrastructure during a Meta tenure handling billions of posts per day. Comfortable across systems and product, his background spans open-source database commits, game-engine work at Riot, and research in computer graphics at the University of Waterloo. Andy blends startup grit with large-scale engineering experience and a playful, metrics-driven approach to growth—tracking millions of lifters while still shipping backend reliability.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Studying Abroad, Computer Science, Studying Abroad, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University SingaporePure and Applied Science, Pure and Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
c1710
databases10
database-administration10
postgresql10
c1110
distributed-database10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
database-design9
cpp8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andyyu8588/Luminous
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
🛠️ A programming language and interpreter built from scratch — inspired by Robert Nystrom's book Crafting Interpreters
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 148 commits in 4 months
crafting-interpretersinterpreterprogramming-languagecompilerbytecode
andyyu8588/Winter2024-Internships
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Collection of Winter 2024 tech internships!
Contributions:5 reviews, 40 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
winterreactinternshipsjobsinterview-preperation
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