Yuanxin Lu
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuanxin Lu is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 8 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems in San Francisco. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he previously founded BricksLLM, an open-source Go API gateway that processes billions of tokens monthly and is used in production by companies like BMW and KaiOS. He has deep backend expertise—designing Go microservices, event-driven architectures, caching and CI/CD pipelines—and a track record of performance optimizations, including a 34% latency reduction and handling 1000+ concurrent requests per instance. Yuanxin also contributes to ML projects, notably implementing audio-to-mel processing and augmentation for SIGGRAPH Asia–level real-time talking-head animation, reflecting a strong intersection of systems engineering and machine learning. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on mentoring experience from Unity’s monetization teams, and has practical experience stopping large-scale DDoS attacks with robust distributed rate limiting.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 3.78, High School, 3.78 at George SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Emory UniversitySummer Session, Computer Science, Summer Session, Computer Science at Horizons School of Technology
Github Skills (6)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
audio-processing10
librosa10
python10
data-augmentation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
YuanxunLu/LiveSpeechPortraits
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Live Speech Portraits: Real-Time Photorealistic Talking-Head Animation (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 29 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Yuanxin contributed significantly to the `funcs/audio_funcs.py` file, which suggests a focus on audio processing within the project. They implemented functions for audio to mel spectrogram conversion, energy calculation, and various audio augmentation techniques. The changes indicate a deep understanding of audio feature extraction and manipulation for the real-time talking-head animation project. The user's work likely supports the core functionality related to speech processing and visual representation.
real-timeanimationsiggraph-asiaspeech-recognitionhead
YuanxunLu/Yuanxunlu.github.io
Sep 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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