Simon Mo is the CEO and co-founder of Inferact, the startup commercializing vLLM, the open-source inference engine he helped create and now leads as lead maintainer. A PhD student at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab advised by Ion Stoica and Joseph Gonzalez, Mo has spent roughly eight years building high-throughput, memory-efficient model-serving systems, from Ray Serve at Anyscale to vLLM, which now powers inference for companies including Amazon. In January 2026 he and his vLLM co-maintainers raised a $150M seed round at an $800M valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed.
Linda Haviv is a Staff Developer Advocate at Anyscale and founder of CodingCrystals.com, best known for her wildly nonlinear path from philosophy major and professional singer to site reliability engineer and AI infrastructure advocate. After graduating summa cum laude as Baruch College's salutatorian, teaching herself to code at The Flatiron School, and spending years as a JavaScript developer and SRE at Fox Corporation, she joined AWS as a developer advocate before landing at Anyscale — the company behind Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework that powers OpenAI's ChatGPT training. She uses her platform to demystify AI infrastructure for developers everywhere, and sells STEM-inspired crystal jewelry on the side.

Robert Nishihara is a co-founder of Anyscale, the company commercializing Ray - the open-source distributed computing framework powering AI workloads at OpenAI, Apple, Uber, and thousands of other organizations. A Harvard math grad and UC Berkeley PhD, he built Ray during his doctoral research to solve the tooling bottlenecks he personally experienced doing AI research. Anyscale has raised $259.6M and reached a $1B+ valuation under his leadership before he transitioned from CEO to a product-focused role in mid-2024.