A seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and executive, Yu brings over 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams and building cutting-edge technologies and products for the data center, eCommerce, and automotive markets. Before founding Sonatus, as Head of Mobile Engineering, Yu led a team that built AI-based software on mobile platforms to improve the driving safety of commercial fleets. Before that, as SVP of Engineering at Tanjarine and CTO at Cardfree, Yu led the development of mobile and cloud-based eCommerce platform serving tens of thousands of stores and tens of millions of customers. Previously at Nuova (acquired by Cisco) and Sanera (acquired by Brocade), Yu led the development of multiple innovative, high-performance, highly scalable and robust server, storage, and networking systems. Earlier, Yu was a lead designer of multiple modules in one of the industry's first multi-core microprocessors at Sun Microsystems. Yu holds a BS in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.