Linghui Gong is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building scalable web and distributed systems, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Strikingly where he drives architecture and product development. An AWS Community Hero and daily coder, he combines hands-on full‑stack implementation with strategic leadership, previously leading backend architecture and growth initiatives. He has a strong enterprise background from Morgan Stanley and a history of impactful open-source contributions dating back to Google Summer of Code projects and ongoing work on Lobe Chat, where he integrated major AI providers and multimodal models. Based in Shanghai, he blends deep systems expertise with a curiosity for AI tooling and developer experience, often shipping production-grade integrations and solving complex API/streaming challenges.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Fudan University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
🤯 Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / DeepSeek / Qwen), Knowledge Base (file upload / knowledge management / RAG ), Multi-Modals (Plugins/Artifacts) and Thinking. One-click FREE deployment of your private ChatGPT/ Claude / DeepSeek application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 reviews, 12 PRs, 31 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Linghui primarily focused on implementing support for new AI model providers, including Anthropic, Mistral, and OpenRouter. They were responsible for integrating these providers into the Lobe Chat framework, including handling API interactions, stream processing, and error management. Additionally, the user contributed to the codebase by adding new models, such as Claude 3 and LLaMA 3, to existing providers and setting up associated configurations. They also addressed bug fixes and test case improvements.
Contributions:42 commits, 19 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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