Jeethu Rao is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 17 years building scalable backend systems and machine learning infrastructure, currently serving as Co-Founder and CEO of Numen Technologies in Dublin. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to high-profile open-source projects like the Cyclone web framework and ML model support in mlc-llm—with executive product and company building across multiple startups. His background spans senior engineering and SRE roles at Google, production engineering at Facebook, and technical leadership in e-commerce and classifieds, reflecting deep experience in reliability, distributed systems, and deployment tooling. Jeethu’s work on LLM deployment and adding model support demonstrates a practical focus on making cutting-edge ML easier to use in production. He brings an uncommon mix of low-level protocol fixes and high-level ML systems design, plus a history of founding and scaling tech ventures. Based in Dublin, he pairs technical breadth with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for shipping pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of London
Universal LLM Deployment Engine with ML Compilation
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jeethu primarily contributed to the implementation and support of various Large Language Models (LLMs) within the ML compiler environment. Their work included adding new model support, such as Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1 and Stable LM 3B, by modifying existing code and creating configurations. They also addressed minor bug fixes and enhancements, improving the overall functionality and compatibility of the LLM deployment engine. Furthermore, the user worked on making the code more user-friendly and corrected minor inconsistencies within the project.
Cyclone is a web server framework for Python, that implements the Tornado API as a Twisted protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jeethu contributed to the Cyclone web framework by addressing issues, backporting fixes from Tornado, and improving the framework's functionality. They made changes to `httputil.py`, `web.py`, and `httpclient.py`, implementing fixes and optimizations. The user also updated the `setup.py` to use setuptools and added support for the `PATCH` HTTP method within the documentation.
apipythonweb-serverserver-frameworktornado
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