Winson Luk
Founder at Ithy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWinson Luk is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience delivering scalable systems and resilient infrastructure for global platforms. As founder of Ithy and co-founder of Framedge (patent US 11,216,631), he combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering to bring ambitious ideas to production. His backend and reliability expertise spans real-time data pipelines at LinkedIn, scalable analytics at Apple, and AI-driven backend work on open-source projects like the GPT-researcher, where he improved search retrieval, added new LLM providers, and tightened token handling. Based in New York, he holds a BS in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and a Project Management certificate from the University of Chicago. He thrives on turning complex requirements into robust, auditable systems and mentoring teams to ship reliably at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego4.4 GPA, 4.4 GPA at Carlmont High SchoolProfessional Certificate, Project Management, Professional Certificate, Project Management at University of Chicago
Chinese, English, python (conversational)
Github Skills (12)
lm10
openai10
python10
ai10
llm10
agents9
agent9
automations8
automation8
google-search8
web-scraping7
configurations7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
assafelovic/gpt-researcher
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
LLM based autonomous agent that conducts local and web research on any topic and generates a comprehensive report with citations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 17 comments, 4 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Winson primarily contributed to back-end functionality, focusing on improving Google Search retrieval, integrating new LLM providers (xAI, DeepSeek), and addressing bugs. They fixed issues related to exception handling and token limits within the strategic LLM processing. The commits also include updates to the configuration and prompts, demonstrating a hands-on approach to improving the system's robustness and functionality.
agentaiautomationllmsopenai
winsonluk/Recuria
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
With artificial intelligence trained on real startup pitches and conversations with entrepreneurs, Recuria creates surprisingly plausible random startup ideas.
Contributions:1014 commits, 988 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
deep-learningreinforcement-learningartificialmachine-learningconversations
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