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Simon Mo

Lead maintainer of vLLM and co-founder of Inferact, a company started by vLLM's maintainers

  • Co-founder, Inferact14
  • Lead maintainer and project lead (API entrypoints, community), vLLM project231

Simon Mo is a lead maintainer of vLLM, the open-source engine for serving large language models; the project's governance document lists Simon Mo among the lead maintainers responsible for its overall direction, and the committers list names Simon Mo as a project lead for API entrypoints and community. Simon Mo is also listed for the project's documentation, benchmarks, and CI, build, and release process. Simon Mo is a co-founder of Inferact, a company founded by vLLM's maintainers to work on AI inference.2314

Open-source work

Mo's earliest commits to vLLM date from November 2023 and include documentation for the official Docker image. vLLM's governance document now lists Mo among the lead maintainers responsible for the project's overall direction.652

The committers list names Mo as project lead for API entrypoints and community and as a reviewer for the model interface and the OpenAI-compatible API server, alongside documentation, benchmarks and the CI, build and release process. Mo published vLLM releases including v0.10.2 in September 2025 and v0.11.0 in October 2025.378

Inferact

In January 2026 Inferact announced itself as a company founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, aiming to make AI inference cheaper and faster while keeping vLLM open source. Mo's GitHub profile lists Mo as a co-founder of Inferact and lead maintainer of the vLLM project.41

Work

  • vLLMOpen-source code

    Listed as a lead maintainer and project lead; the committers document lists Simon Mo for API entrypoints, community, documentation, benchmarks, and the CI, build, and release process.23

    Project page (external site: github.com)

Career timeline

  1. Nov 16, 2023

    Made early commits to the vLLM repository, including an engine step fix.5

  2. Nov 19, 2023

    Added documentation for vLLM's official Docker image.6

  3. Sep 13, 2025

    Published the vLLM v0.10.2 release.7

  4. Oct 2, 2025

    Published the vLLM v0.11.0 release.8

  5. Jan 2026

    Inferact, co-founded by Mo and other vLLM maintainers, was announced.41

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References · reviewed Oct 21, 2026

  1. 1.
    simon-mo (Simon Mo) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026

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    vLLM committers and areas of expertise (external site: github.com)

    vLLM project · Documentation · accessed Oct 21, 2026

  4. 4.
    Introducing Inferact: Building the Future of AI Inference (external site: inferact.ai)

    Inferact · Announcement · published Jan 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026

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    vLLM commit: Documentation about official docker image (#1709) (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Repository · published Nov 19, 2023 · accessed Oct 21, 2026

  7. 7.
    vLLM v0.10.2 release (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Release notes · published Sep 13, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026

  8. 8.
    vLLM v0.11.0 release (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Release notes · published Oct 2, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026

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