Li-Fan Yu

Engineering Manager at Coinbase

Li-Fan Yu is a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase since June 2023, previously holding the same position at OpenSea from June 2022 to June 2023, focusing on Trust & Safety. Prior to that, Li-Fan served as a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead on user authentication at Robinhood from August 2019 to June 2022. Li-Fan gained experience at Yahoo from July 2016 to August 2019, leading projects in user authentication and authorization, including single sign-on (SSO) solutions. Additionally, Li-Fan contributed to academia as a Teaching Assistant for iOS Development at Stanford University in late 2015 and worked as a Research Assistant at Academia Sinica from July 2013 to June 2014. Li-Fan earned a Master’s degree in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

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Coinbase

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Founded in 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and easy-to-use platform that enables people to purchase and sell cryptocurrency and access the broader crytoeconomy. Coinbase supports hundreds of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, and dogecoin. Coinbase’s mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. They aim to build a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. Today, Coinbase serves approximately 103 million verified users, 14,500 institutions, and 245,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries as they work towards their mission of bringing equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Coinbase is guided by two principles: first, be the most trusted company in their domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use. In addition to cryptocurrency, Coinbase also supports an NFT (non-fungible tokens) marketplace.