{"id":"sean-yu","title":"Sean Yu","content":"**Sean Yu** is a technology entrepreneur and engineer, best known as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of [Bridge](https://iq.wiki/wiki/bridge), a financial technology company that builds payment infrastructure using stablecoins. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-7cmwq6pIvy) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-wSrqixtpUj)​\n\n## Education\n\nSean Yu earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University, where he studied Computer Science, Economics, and Mathematics from 2006 to 2010. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-cj9v30M2lv)​\n\n## Career\n\nSean Yu's career is marked by a consistent focus on payment systems, financial technology, and scalable engineering. His professional history spans over a decade across several major technology firms and startups. He began his career in 2009 as an iOS Engineer at Terriblyclever Design, LLC, contributing to app development before the company's acquisition by Blackboard. He then joined Blackboard Mobile, where he served as Lead iOS Engineer from 2009 to 2011 before becoming Senior Engineering Manager in 2012, overseeing iOS development and product architecture.\n\nYu later co-founded the mobile payments startup Evenly, which was acquired by Square in 2013. Following the acquisition, Yu worked at Square as a Software Engineer from 2013 to 2015, developing distributed systems and syncing protocols for the company's Register app. He then joined DoorDash as an early engineer, serving as a Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager from 2015 to 2018, where he led engineering teams and product initiatives. Subsequently, he worked as a Staff Engineer at [Coinbase](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coinbase) from 2018 to 2019, focusing on blockchain-related infrastructure, and then as a Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb from 2019 to 2022, contributing to large-scale technical systems.\n\nIn 2022, Yu co-founded [Bridge](https://iq.wiki/wiki/bridge) with his Evenly partner, [Zach Abrams](https://iq.wiki/wiki/zach-abrams), and serves as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, he leads the technological development of the company's infrastructure, which is designed to facilitate global money movement using stablecoins. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-7cmwq6pIvy) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-wSrqixtpUj)","summary":"Sean Yu is the co-founder and CTO of Bridge, a financial technology company building payment infrastructure with stablecoins. 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