Summary
Yixuan Zhai is a software engineer and founder specializing in real-time voice AI and multi-agent orchestration, with nine years building large-scale distributed systems at Meta and Twitter. As Lead Maintainer of AG2 (formerly AutoGen) and organizer of MassGen, he drives open-source roadmaps for sequential/group/async chat and heterogeneous LLM integrations across OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic. He founded Bodhi Agent to deliver "zero-barrier" phone-accessible voice AI, inventing a non-blocking voice engine that decouples conversation from heavy background work and achieves sub-millisecond planning latency via direct WebSocket integrations. At Twitter he architected cost-saving infrastructure that eliminated roughly $95M in annual spend (about $56M directly attributed to his designs) and built core Ads indexing and databus systems processing millions of QPS. His PhD background in dynamic networks and online learning underpins a research-informed approach to low-latency, resilient systems. He’s energized by making agentic AI production-ready and by mentoring community contributors to bridge research, product, and real-world accessibility.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis
BS, Communication engineering, BS, Communication engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
High school