Luca Pinchetti
Member Of Technical Staff at Zyphra
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuca Pinchetti is an AI-focused software engineer and Oxford DPhil who blends a decade of hands-on production engineering with deep learning research into biologically plausible and memory-augmented systems. As a YC founder and former CTO of Circlemind, he built a browser agent (Smooth) that delivered order-of-magnitude speed and cost improvements and grew the product to ~$50k ARR while open-sourcing fast-graphRAG, which quickly attracted thousands of stars. His work spans full-stack system design, agentic frameworks, and distributed training research—recently prototyping predictive-coding/backprop hybrids and shipping the PCX library from his Oxford research. Now at Zyphra in Cambridge, he continues to translate cutting-edge research into production-grade software, with a particular interest in making neural networks more interpretable and efficient. Colleagues describe him as curious and pragmatic: he moves fast from proofs-of-concept to deployed services while maintaining rigorous academic grounding.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Università di TrentoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Liceo Scientifico Copernico
Github Skills (27)
equinox9
callable9
css9
materialize9
python8
automatic-differentiation8
javascript8
pytorch7
autodiff7
parallel7
machine-learning7
gpu7
composable7
deep-learning7
jit7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
circlemind-ai/fast-graphrag
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
RAG that intelligently adapts to your use case, data, and queries
Contributions:1 review, 30 PRs, 109 pushes in 4 months
liukidar/pcx
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Predictive Coding JAX-based library
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 5 PRs in 8 months
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