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title: "Ishaan Jaffer - Co-Founder & CTO in United States | Tal"
description: "Meet Ishaan Jaffer, Co-Founder & CTO LiteLLM (YC W23) | 53K+ Github stars | Hiring based in United States."
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# Ishaan Jaffer on Tal

## 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

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