Luffy
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Summary
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Rockstar
Top expert inPHP-Based Web Development and Microservices Frameworks
Luffy Yu is a founder and CEO with 8 years of engineering and entrepreneurial experience building ML-driven products and distributed systems across mobile, backend, and robotics. He earned a Master’s in Deep Learning from Cornell Tech and led production recommender foundation models at Kuaishou that materially increased user engagement, while holding a patent on transformer-based recall. As founder of Reborn Network he’s scaling an open ecosystem for robot AGI—combining wearables, VR, simulation, and an expanding model zoo to address data scarcity for embodied agents. He has a strong open-source footprint in high-impact PHP and backend projects (Swoole, Hyperf, Laravel Octane) and has contributed to php.net localization, demonstrating attention to accessibility and global developer UX. Earlier startups applied ML to music recognition and local news aggregation, showing a pattern of productizing research into user-facing services. Based in Hong Kong, he blends research rigor with hands-on engineering and a maker’s focus on shipping measurable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
131reputation
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Github Skills (67)
testing10
httpc10
http-client10
blogspot10
concurrency10
swoole10
markdown10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
app-framework10
laravel10
localization10
performance-optimization10
httplib10
coroutines10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
swlib/saber
Aug 2019 - May 2021
⚔️ Saber, PHP异步协程HTTP客户端 | PHP Coroutine HTTP client - Swoole Humanization Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 15 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Luffy primarily focused on improving the `saber` library, a PHP HTTP client. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to buffer creation and URI handling, updating the codebase for compatibility, and supporting file uploads. They also added features like the ability to specify SSL certificate and key files. The user also contributed to testing, including tests for file uploads and non-redirect scenarios.
hyperfguzzlehumanizationhttp-clientphp
hyperf/hyperf
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
🚀 A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility. Building microservice or middleware with ease.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:538 reviews, 192 commits, 219 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luffy primarily contributed to the Hyperf framework by adding support for various template engines and integrating tools. Their work included integrating the Plates and Think template engines, as well as updating configuration and documentation related to these integrations. They also added features to the Swoole Tracker middleware to improve tracking, and addressed bugs within the code base.
hyperfmodularitygrpccoroutine-frameworkroadrunner
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