# Weishuai Yang

> Weishuai Yang is a person who is a co-founder and chief technology officer at Tread.fi and a software engineer with prior roles at Coinbase and Uniswap Labs.

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- Created: 2026-09-26T04:16:03.006Z
- Last updated: 2026-09-26T04:16:03.006Z
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**Weishuai Yang** is a technologist and entrepreneur who serves as the co-founder and chief technology officer of [Tread.fi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/treadfi), a company that develops algorithmic trading tools for digital assets. He is based in New York, New York, and previously held engineering management roles at [Coinbase](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coinbase) and Uniswap Labs.[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb)​[\[2\]](#cite-id-yzm71auwn1)​

## Education

Yang completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in computer science at Zhejiang University in China. He earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science between 1995 and 1999, followed by a Master of Science in computer science at the same institution between 1999 and 2002.[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-srxdq1a7mk)​

He continued his studies in the United States at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, where he pursued two degrees concurrently. He completed a PhD in computer science between 2002 and 2008 and, in an overlapping period from 2003 to 2007, an MBA at the Binghamton University School of Management.[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-srxdq1a7mk) His areas of expertise span software engineering, algorithmic trading, market making, capital markets, and market data analysis.[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb)​

## Career

Before co-founding [Tread.fi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/treadfi), Yang worked in engineering leadership roles at two established [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) companies. He was an engineering manager at [Coinbase](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coinbase), the U.S. [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) exchange, from October 2021 to June 2022.[\[3\]](#cite-id-srxdq1a7mk)​[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb) He then joined Uniswap Labs, the company behind the [decentralized exchange](https://iq.wiki/wiki/decentralized-exchange) protocol [Uniswap](https://iq.wiki/wiki/uniswap), as an engineering manager from June 2022 to November 2022.[\[3\]](#cite-id-srxdq1a7mk)​[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb)​

### Tread.fi

Yang is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of [Tread.fi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/treadfi), taking on the role in January 2023.[\[3\]](#cite-id-srxdq1a7mk) [Tread.fi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/treadfi), founded in 2022, is a private company that builds algorithmic trading tools for digital assets. Its platform is designed to integrate into a trader's existing workflow, automate the execution of trades, and minimize [slippage](https://iq.wiki/wiki/slippage) — the difference between an expected trade price and the price at which the trade is actually filled. .[\[2\]](#cite-id-yzm71auwn1)​

Yang co-founded the company alongside [David Jeong](https://iq.wiki/wiki/david-jeong), who serves as chief executive officer, and [Yibo Duan](https://iq.wiki/wiki/yibo-duan), another co-founder.[\[2\]](#cite-id-yzm71auwn1) As chief technology officer, he leads the company's technical development, drawing on his background in software engineering and electronic trading systems.[\[1\]](#cite-id-bgfnioshwb)​