Work Experience
Weights & Biases
Co-Founder & CISO
Responsibilities
Making great tools for machine learning practitioners: https://www.wandb.com
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Co-Founder & CISO / Weights & Biases
Chris Van Pelt is the Co-Founder and CISO of Weights & Biases (W&B), a leading MLOps platform for experiment tracking and visualization. He is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower), a company focused on generating training data using crowdsourcing. With over 17 years of experience, his expertise lies in building scalable web applications, machine learning tools, and ensuring information security.
Co-Founder & CISO
Making great tools for machine learning practitioners: https://www.wandb.com
Founder / CAO (Chief Awesome Officer)
Got my MBA the hard way. We helped ML teams generate training data using crowd sourcing.
Technical Product Manager
Working closely with network ops, platform, index pipeline, ranking, and natural language teams to explore and implement products and concepts. Working with 7 developers to manage and maintain consumer search products.
Lead Engineer / Community Manager
Was the lead architect for a ground up rewrite of the companies core technology in Ruby. Managed a team of developers and interfaced with partners. Presented at sales meetings and events.
Production Assistant
I was a production assistant for the Late Night with Conan O'brien show. For 3 months I stocked refrigerators, bought Starbucks coffee, ordered dinner, and observed all aspects of producing a late night talk show.
BA
BA - Computer Science, Studio Art
Proficient in every aspect of web application development, from server administration and databases to custom UI elements. Thrives in the startup environment.
XHMTL, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, Linux, and scaling.
AI, Programming, CLI's, Space, and Hot Springs. Currently learning more about LLM's.
Chris Van Pelt is a seasoned software leader and co-founder of two major ML/AI companies, focusing on MLOps, web application development, and security.
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