Cyrus Leung is a product manager and former product and UX leader with over a decade of experience bringing customer-focused digital products to market across fintech, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. Based in Hong Kong, he has led product and UX teams at YouTrip, Brightful, and now Moovup, blending hands-on design sensibilities with strategic product delivery. His background as a designer and early career roles in web and UX position him to translate user needs into polished, usable products while coaching cross-functional teams. Cyrus also contributes to open-source backend tooling—fixing bugs and improving async utilities for a high-throughput LLM inference project—showing a practical engineering chops beyond pure product work. Currently a PhD candidate at HKUST, he pairs academic rigor with startup execution, often spotting operational edge cases and API quirks before they reach customers.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at The University of Texas at Austin
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3050 reviews, 1202 PRs, 1179 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Cyrus contributed to the project by moving utility functions related to asynchronous iterators to a separate module. They addressed bugs in the OpenAI API entrypoints, fixing issues with chat templates and extra fields in the API. The user also corrected a parameter name within the tokenizer, further contributing to improvements of the codebase and API functionality.
ROCm-enabled vLLM: A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Contributions:2 PRs, 1306 pushes, 236 branches in 7 months
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