{"version":1,"id":"yibo-duan","title":"Yibo Duan","summary":"Yibo Duan is a people that is a co-founder and engineer at Tread.fi and previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon.","content":"**Yibo Duan** is a Canadian-trained software engineer and entrepreneur who is a co-founder of [Tread.fi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/treadfi), a [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) trading technology company, where he serves as head of engineering.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-7gle7ny9hi)​[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-m4xcy1mvco) \n\n## Education\n\nDuan pursued a dual academic path in Canada between 2010 and 2015, combining computer science with business studies. At the University of Waterloo he completed a Computer Science and Business Double Degree, earning a Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with an academic focus on concurrency and algorithms on the computer science side and marketing on the business side.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-7gle7ny9hi) The program's coursework included algorithms, artificial intelligence, and databases in computer science alongside consumer behaviour and marketing strategy in business.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​\n\nThe double degree was administered jointly with Wilfrid Laurier University, where Duan was awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing over the same 2010–2015 period.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-7gle7ny9hi) During his studies he took part in intramural sports including soccer, hockey, softball, and ultimate frisbee, and was involved in street dance and music performance and production.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​\n\n## Career\n\n### Early Engineering Roles\n\nDuan's earliest professional experience came through internships spanning project management and software development on three continents. In 2011 he worked as an assistant project manager at Pfizer in Beijing, China, where his responsibilities included creating team communication websites and determining and scheduling workflow.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9) In early 2012 he was a software engineering intern at Salesforce in Toronto, Canada, working on mailing features and debugging, and in early 2013 he returned to Toronto as a software engineering intern at Peraso Inc., focusing on test automation and embedded software development.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​\n\nAfter completing his studies, Duan began his full-time career in the United States. From March 2016 to June 2018 he was a software developer at [Avant](https://iq.wiki/wiki/avant), a financial technology firm, in Chicago, Illinois.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9) He then joined Amazon as a software development engineer in Seattle, Washington, a role he held from June 2018 to March 2023 — a tenure of four years and nine months that formed the longest single position of his career before he moved into entrepreneurship.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​\n\n### Tread.fi\n\nIn March 2023 Duan co-founded [Tread.fi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/treadfi), a [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) trading technology company, where he serves as head of engineering.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-7gle7ny9hi)​[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-m4xcy1mvco) He was the company's third co-founder, joining David Jeong, who serves as chief executive officer, and Weishuai Yang, who serves as chief technology officer.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-m4xcy1mvco) Announcing his arrival, the company described Duan as bringing experience in building enterprise-facing applications at scale, drawing on his background at Amazon.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9)​\n\n## Personal Projects\n\nOutside his professional work, Duan has maintained a set of software side projects, several of them tied to the digital collectible card game Hearthstone. Since September 2014 he has worked on Hearthstats, a tool for tracking Hearthstone match statistics; associated code repositories include an automatic uploader for the HearthStats.net service.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9) His broader body of public code spans academic and open-source work, including contributions to DefinitelyTyped, a repository of TypeScript type definitions, and to qmk\\_firmware, keyboard controller firmware for the Atmel AVR USB family.[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-5e3x1my4t9) \n","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"people"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founder"},{"id":"Developer"}],"images":[{"id":"QmUyGawrsP4zRykfrWJV8N5Bzg2vMEFsTKPH7LoCwF9WGd","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"media":[],"metadata":[{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiboduan/"},{"id":"github_profile","value":"https://github.com/YiboDuan"},{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"7gle7ny9hi\",\"description\":\"RootData - Yibo Duan\",\"timestamp\":1790394644647,\"url\":\"https://www.rootdata.com/member/Yibo%20Duan?k=MjA2NzM%3D\"},{\"id\":\"m4xcy1mvco\",\"url\":\"https://craft.co/tread-fi/executives\",\"description\":\"Craft.co listing Duan as Tread.fi co-founder\",\"timestamp\":1790394197572},{\"id\":\"5e3x1my4t9\",\"description\":\"LinkedIn: Yibo Duan\",\"timestamp\":1790394666578,\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiboduan/?isSelfProfile=false\"}]"},{"id":"main-image-origin","value":"{\"imageId\":\"QmUyGawrsP4zRykfrWJV8N5Bzg2vMEFsTKPH7LoCwF9WGd\",\"originalId\":\"QmUyGawrsP4zRykfrWJV8N5Bzg2vMEFsTKPH7LoCwF9WGd\"}"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"Create Yibo Duan wiki"}],"events":[{"type":"DEFAULT","title":"Started role at Tread.fi","date":"2023-03-01","description":"Started role at Tread.fi (role start date recorded)","link":null,"multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"id":"27856581-9159-479c-8499-5ab6dade9948"},{"type":"DEFAULT","title":"Started role at Amazon","date":"2018-06-01","description":"Started role at Amazon (role start date recorded)","link":null,"multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"id":"3b2cdf32-80d5-46a6-8754-e70a3c62013c"},{"type":"DEFAULT","title":"Reposted and liked Aggressive Maker post","date":"2024-06-01","description":"Reposted and liked a post by Aggressive Maker","link":null,"multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"id":"f8ec9af8-4e66-4bff-9f27-bf443773c2e5"}],"linkedWikis":{"founders":["treadfi"],"blockchains":[],"speakers":[]},"user":{"id":"0x8af7a19a26d8fbc48defb35aefb15ec8c407f889"},"author":{"id":"0x4a2bC97afBF41a2Cbf4b4628F63420682Ff4CF2a"},"language":"en","operator":{"id":"0x4a2bC97afBF41a2Cbf4b4628F63420682Ff4CF2a"}}