Ian Ye

Ian Ye

The Hung Beast

Wafer · Stanford CS · YC founder

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Experience

Member of Technical Staff

atWafer

Performance engineering.

Co-Founder (prev)

atWillow

YC S24. Built AI to automate healthcare revenue cycle management, helping long-term care clinics maximize reimbursement.

Writing

Is memory the moat?July 2026

Serving Kimi K3 on AMD MI355X at ~952 tok/s per node.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaperJuly 2026

Serving GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at significantly lower cost than competing hardware.

Achieving Heterogeneous Compute One Kernel at a TimeMay 2026

How custom kernels boosted Qwen3.5 throughput on AMD MI355X.

Music

  • Co-concertmaster, National Youth Orchestra of Canada
  • TSYO Concerto Competition Winner — Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1
  • NYCO Concerto Competition Winner — Sarasate Carmen Fantasy
  • Koerner Hall debut at 14
  • Full scholarship, Phil & Eli Taylor Performance Academy

Education

Stanford University

B.S. Computer Science