Team

Maximize intelligence per watt by using AI to optimize AI infrastructure

A small, in-person team in SF working on performance across accelerators, architectures, and all stack layers.

  • JV Cosico

    JV was Founding GTM at Alluxio, backed by a16z, where he built an AI outbound engine that 2.5x’d pipeline. He was also the top enterprise rep in North America for generated pipeline at Oracle.

    JV Cosico

    Growth

  • Danny Liu

    Danny studied CS at the University of Chicago and excelled with 5 frontier LLMs during his month-long internship at Wafer.

    Danny Liu

    Technical Staff

  • Ian Ye

    Ian co-founded Willow in YCombinator’s Summer '24 batch. He studied CS at Stanford and was concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra.

    Ian Ye

    Technical Staff

  • John Hahn

    John developed data center automation software at AWS and studied Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He also served as a Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces.

    John Hahn

    Technical Staff

  • Steven Arellano

    Steven has worked on High Performance Computing and AI infrastructure at Two Sigma, Google, and Sei Labs. He earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.

    Steven Arellano

    Founder

  • Emilio Andere

    Emilio did ML security research at UChicago (NeurIPS '22) and researched weather models at Argonne National Lab. He studied Mathematics at the University of Chicago.

    Emilio Andere

    Founder

Backed By
  • Fifty Years

    Fifty Years

  • Y Combinator

    Y Combinator

  • Liquid 2

    Liquid 2

  • NVIDIA Inception

    NVIDIA Inception

  • Jeff Dean

    Jeff Dean

    Chief Scientist, Google

  • Woj Zaremba

    Woj Zaremba

    Co-founder, OpenAI

  • Dan Fu

    Dan Fu

    Head of Kernels, Together

  • Charlie Songhurst

    Charlie Songhurst

    Board of Directors, Meta

  • Arash Ferdowsi

    Arash Ferdowsi

    Co-Founder, Dropbox

  • Kawal Gandhi

    Kawal Gandhi

    Office of CTO, Google

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