Tony Yu
Sourcing Director at Merit Link International AG
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolTony Yu is a seasoned Sourcing Director based in Shanghai with 27+ years in procurement, supply chain and supplier quality, and 11 years in senior sourcing leadership roles focused on power tools, hand tools, garden tools and home appliances. He has led regional and global sourcing teams at Stanley Black & Decker and now manages multi-brand procurement, new brand launches and supplier enablement at Merit Link International AG, blending category strategy with hands-on NPD support. Tony’s strengths include supply chain optimization, SRM, FMEA, Six Sigma and tariff/geo-political mitigation—skills he has used to relocate suppliers, diversify sources and protect post-COVID supply continuity. He also designs practical governance and commercial processes (Make vs Buy, approval matrices, contract frameworks) that reduce internal friction and enable supplier-investment models. Unusually for a sourcing director, he is curious about advanced tech—listing LLMs, reinforcement learning and robotics on his GitHub bio—indicating an appetite to apply AI and automation to procurement and supplier innovation. With an MBA and a long track record of building teams and driving cost, quality and delivery KPIs, he combines operational rigor with strategic brand and product roadmap thinking.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Master Of Business Administration, MBA, Master Of Business Administration at Centenary UniversityCollege Diploma, Electrical Engineering / Electrical Apparatus, College Diploma, Electrical Engineering / Electrical Apparatus at Shanghai Dianji University
Github Skills (164)
proximal-policy-optimization10
transformers10
parallel10
trello10
python10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
optimization10
markdown10
robotics10
animation10
async10
localization10
knowledge-graph10
solar-energy10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tsaoyu/WHUT-LaTeX-bachelor
Apr 2015 - Jun 2019
This is a free LaTeX template for the undergraduate thesis at WHUT
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 2 months
latex
tsaoyu/RLenergy
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Optimal energy dispatch with reinforcement learning
Contributions:32 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
reinforcement-learningenergy
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