Richard Kuo
Founding Engineer at Onyx AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Kuo is a founding engineer in San Francisco who builds high‑performance, scalable media and AI systems with over a decade of experience. He currently helps ship connected Gen‑AI tooling as a founding engineer at Onyx AI and DanswerAI and contributes backend work to onyx-dot-app/onyx, including Vespa indexing, a Gmail connector, and improved observability. Previously he was Principal Engineer and Tech Lead at imgix, where he architected and scaled the image/video processing pipeline that serves billions of images per day and led a GPU‑accelerated, cross‑platform rendering effort (Vulkan). His background spans product, operations, and low‑level systems from roles at Netflix, Google/YouTube and SnapStream, managing large teams, on‑call automation and massive content pipelines. He combines hands‑on C/C++ and codec expertise with product instincts and a focus on testing and monitoring to turn complex infrastructure into reliable, production systems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
python10
vespa10
back-end10
backend10
celery9
pytest9
redis8
tomcat6
websocket6
java6
nextjs4
docker3
dockerce3
kubernetes3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
onyx-dot-app/onyx
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
Gen-AI Chat for Teams - Think ChatGPT if it had access to your team's unique knowledge.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard's contributions primarily involve backend development, focusing on fixing bugs and adding features to the Onyx application. They made changes to the Vespa index, Gmail connector and related testing, and configurations. Their work demonstrates an understanding of the application's internal workings, including components related to data indexing, email connectors, and testing infrastructure. The user also made changes to the monitoring and logging infrastructure to ensure better observability.
ai-chatchatgptenterprise-searchgen-aiinformation-retrieval
cablehead/levee
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years 6 months
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