Winson Luk
Founder at Ithy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWinson Luk is a founder and engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, scalable systems for companies from Apple to LinkedIn and now his own startup, Ithy. He has deep expertise in site reliability and real-time data pipelines, having architected monitoring for 50+ LinkedIn products and built Kafka/Samza streaming backends that processed thousands of events per hour. As co‑founder of Framedge (patented technology) and an active back-end contributor to LLM research tooling, he improves robustness by tackling exception handling, token limits, and multi-provider integrations. Comfortable across Python, Java, and cloud services, Winson pairs hands-on coding with product-facing delivery and mentoring. Based in New York, he blends startup grit and large-scale engineering discipline, often surfacing pragmatic fixes that reveal latent system fragilities.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoCarlmont High SchoolProfessional Certificate Project Management, Professional Certificate Project Management at University of Chicago
Chinese, English, python (conversational)
Github Skills (11)
lm10
openai10
python10
ai10
llm10
agent9
automations8
automation8
google-search8
webscraping7
configurations7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
assafelovic/gpt-researcher
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
LLM based autonomous agent that conducts local and web research on any topic and generates a comprehensive report with citations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 17 comments, 4 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Winson primarily contributed to back-end functionality, focusing on improving Google Search retrieval, integrating new LLM providers (xAI, DeepSeek), and addressing bugs. They fixed issues related to exception handling and token limits within the strategic LLM processing. The commits also include updates to the configuration and prompts, demonstrating a hands-on approach to improving the system's robustness and functionality.
agentaiautomationllmsopenai
winsonluk/Recuria
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
With artificial intelligence trained on real startup pitches and conversations with entrepreneurs, Recuria creates surprisingly plausible random startup ideas.
Contributions:1014 commits, 988 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
deep-learningreinforcement-learningartificialmachine-learningconversations
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