# Eric Litvin

> Eric Litvin is Co-Founder and President of Luma Optics, a Sebastopol, California company engineering the optical hardware behind the world's heaviest AI workloads. A 20+ year veteran of optical datacom, Eric co-founded Luma Optics in 2004 and scaled it into a North American leader in AI-driven optical interconnect — 500,000+ units deployed, <0.01% field failure rate, 800G transceivers shipping for NVIDIA GB200 and hyperscale AI fabric. Luma Optics ranked No. 47 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with 5,757% three-year revenue growth.

## Canonical pages

- [Home — Eric Litvin, AI Hardware Pioneer](https://ericlitvin.ai/): Hero profile, career highlights, achievements, Luma Optics overview.
- [About Eric Litvin](https://ericlitvin.ai/about.html): Full biography, career history, education, expertise, innovations, market position.
- [Luma Optics](https://ericlitvin.ai/luma-optics.html): Company profile, scale metrics, technical differentiation, 800G capability, global operations.
- [Career Timeline](https://ericlitvin.ai/timeline.html): Chronological career milestones across 20+ years in optical networking and AI hardware.
- [References & Authority](https://ericlitvin.ai/references.html): External references, press coverage, industry listings, professional profiles.
- [Press & Media Room](https://ericlitvin.ai/press.html): Official press hub, executive bio, headshots, logos, press releases, media contact.

## Press releases & insights

- [Luma Optics Ranks No. 47 on 2025 Inc. 5000](https://ericlitvin.ai/articles/inc-5000-no-47-2025.html): 5,757% three-year revenue growth. Top 1% of America's fastest-growing private companies.
- [Eric Litvin on 800G Transceivers for NVIDIA GB200](https://ericlitvin.ai/articles/800g-nvidia-gb200.html): Why 800G is the threshold that keeps GB200-class GPU clusters saturated under realistic AI training loads.
- [AI Optical Interconnect: The Bottleneck Nobody Talks About](https://ericlitvin.ai/articles/ai-optical-interconnect.html): Why the real ceiling on AI scale is photonic, not computational.
- [Building AI Hardware in Wine Country](https://ericlitvin.ai/articles/wine-country-ai.html): Why Sebastopol, California became an AI optical hardware hub.

## Key facts

- **Name:** Eric Litvin
- **Role:** Co-Founder and President, Luma Optics
- **Location:** Sebastopol, California (Sonoma County, Wine Country)
- **Company founded:** 2004
- **Industry:** AI optical interconnect · GPU network infrastructure · optical transceivers · datacom
- **Education:** Dickinson College, Bachelor of Arts (1991)
- **Prior experience:** Oracle, Selectica, Sybase
- **Company scale:** 500,000+ units deployed globally, 30,000+ systems installed, <0.01% field failure rate, 2 warehouse locations (California + Netherlands)
- **Flagship product:** 800G optical transceivers for NVIDIA GB200 and hyperscale AI fabric
- **Technical differentiators:** Patent-pending robotics automation platform, ML-powered transceiver diagnostics
- **Recognition:** Inc. 5000 No. 47 (2025) with 5,757% three-year growth

## Entity references

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-litvin-126017109/
- Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-litvin
- Luma Optics website: https://www.lumaoptics.net/
- Luma Optics on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luma-optics-inc-
- Luma Optics on Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/luma-optics
- Luma Optics on X: https://x.com/lumaoptics

## Long-form context

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