Headline

Co-Founder & CTO LiteLLM (YC W23) | 53K+ Github stars | Hiring

About

I am a Co-Founder and CTO with a deep background in scaling high-performance AI infrastructure. Previously a Software Engineer at Coinbase, I now lead development at LiteLLM, an open-source AI gateway with over 53,000 GitHub stars. My technical expertise spans distributed systems, machine learning, and hardware-level optimization, backed by a degree from Carnegie Mellon. I am passionate about building efficient, developer-centric AI tooling that solves real-world production challenges.

Location

United States

Work experience

Co-Founder & CTO at LiteLLM (YC W23), Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Open-source AI Gateway with 54K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe. We have raised a $1.6M seed round from Y Combinator, Gravity Fund and Pioneer Fund.

Software Engineer II at Coinbase, Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 · 6 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer at Coinbase, Aug 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr, San Francisco Bay Area, • Designed, built and tested systems to interact with new Blockchains adding New Assets Under Custody • Led and implemented asset addition scaling solutions to increase bandwidth by 400% and decrease latency by 85%

Software Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Dec 2020 - May 2021 · 6 mos, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Software Engineer at the TEEL Lab (teel.cs.cmu.edu) developing a course on Artificial Intelligence using big data and ML/cognitive services from the major cloud service providers.

Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 · 5 mos, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Working with Prof. Nakahira on provably safe frameworks for learning-based control in autonomous vehicles

Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, TA for 15-112: Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science and 15-440 Distributed Systems • Support ~500 students in managing course load and learning to program in Python • Work with professors and staff of 50 TA’s to develop course and maximize student success and engagement • Led weekly recitations for 30 students to facilitate problem-solving skills based on class material

Founder at Lunegy.edu, Apr 2020 - Nov 2020 · 8 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Started a company where I spent 250+ hours building and debugging projects with developers - Built 30 projects, including a stock trading bot, AI Chess Engine, OpenCV Exercise analyser

Software Engineering Intern at Qualcomm, Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · 3 mos, San Diego, California, • Conceptualized and developed an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) system to pipeline large datasets to testing teams, improving load times from 30 seconds to 2 seconds (15x Speedup) • Led the design, development and launch of dashboards, automated data pulls and analyses to drive key testing decisions for 5G chipset teams

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Minor in Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University

International Baccalaureate, Computer Science, Business, Physics, The Cathedral and John Connon School