Yin Wu, who also known as, Yin Yin Wu, is the founder of Dirt Protocol, a Blockchain based Startup which attempts to incentivize truth telling while also providing the tools that allow users to create their own knowledge Database platform. Wu has worked in the Tech industry in Silicon Valley for more than ten years. She is considered to be one of the youngest Principal Engineer for Microsoft who worked on AI and mobile products many years ago. She is a Y-combinator alum.

Wu is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area where she has worked and lived for most of her life.

In 2011, she graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer science.

Prior to launching Dirt Protocol, Wu was a Software Engineer at Microsoft where she began as one of the youngest principal engineers in their Artificial intellegence and mobile products.

A Veteran of the tech industry in Silicon Valley, one of her experiences was having her start-up, Prim, in Y Combinator Summer of 2013. Yet, after pulling the plug on the product, Prim, which was a Rinse-like start-up that was meant to be the Uber for people with dirty clothes, she managed to start another venture.

She was accepted for the next batch of YC Summer of 2014, and this time, the start-up idea was called Echo Lock, a lockscreen application for mobile devices.

The software was a success as they sold it to Microsoft. Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Julie Larso n-Green praised the Echo lockscreen app for helping take “productivity to the next level” and allowing users to stay “in the moment.”

At Microsoft, Wu became one of the youngest Prinicipal software engineers for the industry in the Artificial intelligence and Mobile technology department. During this time, she lived in Bellevue, Washington. She worked on several projects which include LOOP, Next, Arrow, and Echo.

Yin is the founder of DIRT, a protocol that allows Decentralized curation of trusted data sets. DIRT defines a set of rules for writing and validating information, and uses token staking to incentivize honesty.