Simon is the co-founder of Inferact, a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Simon has co-led the vLLM community effort from UC Berkeley since 2023. Simon previously worked at Anyscale and Character AI on serving systems.
