Yineng Zhang

FlashInfer: FlashInfer is a library and kernel generator for Large Language Models that provides high-performance implementation of LLM GPU kernels. SGLang: SGLang is a fast serving framework for large language models and vision language models.

The New York Times: DeepSeek’s Rise: How a Chinese Start-Up Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star:

“Most of the team graduated from the top universities in China,” said Yineng Zhang, a lead software engineer at Baseten in San Francisco who works on the SGLang, a project not part of DeepSeek that helps people build on top of DeepSeek’s system. “They are very smart and very young.”

The New York Times: How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants:

While employees at big Chinese technology companies are limited to collaborating with colleagues, “if you work on open source, you work with talent around the world,” said Yineng Zhang, lead software engineer at Baseten in San Francisco who works on the open source SGLang project. He helps other people and companies build products using DeepSeek’s system.

Engineering Real-World LLM Inference: Bridging Open-Source and Production Systems
Speaker at NVIDIA GTC 2026

Open Source Model Performance Optimization With SGLang
Featured Speaker at PyTorch Conference 2025

SGLang: Open-Source Model Performance Optimization
Featured Speaker at AMD AI DevDay 2025