Chris Van Pelt is the Co-Founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, a company dedicated to building superior developer tools for the machine learning community. His entrepreneurial journey includes co-founding Beep Networks and holding engineering roles at Google and the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. He is a computer engineering graduate of Virginia Tech.
Chris is passionate about building world-class teams of tool-builders to create products that delight users and unlock new development capabilities. His career reflects a deep commitment to entrepreneurship, having founded multiple tech companies and shown a keen interest in accelerators like Y Combinator.
He once had his LinkedIn account compromised by attackers and publicly shared the detailed story to raise awareness about personal cybersecurity.
Shawn Lewis
Founder/CTO at Weights & Biases
United States
Overview
Topics They Care About
ML Developer Tools
As the Co-Founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, his primary focus is building tools for machine learning engineers to track experiments, manage models, and improve workflows.
AI Agent Development
His company built a state-of-the-art AI programming agent that achieved top performance on the SWE-Bench benchmark, signaling a focus on cutting-edge AI applications.
Startup Entrepreneurship
He has co-founded two significant technology companies, Beep and Weights & Biases, showing a consistent drive for building businesses from the ground up in the tech space.
Media Appearances
Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey. Featured in YouTube
Work History
6-2017
Founder/CTO at Weights & Biases
7-2011 - 11-2016
Founder/CTO at Beep
6-2006 - 7-2010
Software Engineer at Google
5-2003 - 6-2006
Software Engineer at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
6-1999 - 8-2001
Manager at Domino's
Education
8-2002 - 8-2006
Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech
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Designation : Founder/CTO at Weights & Biases
