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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.