Hi 👋 I'm Vlad — a founder, advisor, and engineering leader based in San Francisco.
Previously, I built and led the Forward Deployed Engineering team at Baseten.
I studied math and computer science at the University of Waterloo, where I built a random resume generator that no token-based life form has been able to best.
I strategically invest in ideas I like: Merit (mentorship), Airbyte (middleware), Fractional (AI services), Blockthrough (adtech, exited), Mochi (healthcare), Nishe (e-commerce), Veritus (AI Agents).
Led the Forward Deployed Engineering team at Baseten, helping world-class engineering teams integrate AI into mission-critical product workflows.
Founded Stork, a low-latency data network for blockchain finance. Today, billions of dollars in derivatives volumes are processed on Stork.
Retain was an AI-powered workflow intelligence platform. We built a unique browser-based integration platform for privacy-preserving workflow analytics and solved many interesting classification problems before LLMs really came on the scene.
$23M Series A led by Emergence Capital.
LiveRamp is a leading SaaS connectivity platform. I was the first product manager and a member of the founding engineering team that went on to become LiveRamp.
MyPod transforms newsletters into listenable podcasts. Just forward them to an email address, and it converts them into episodes for easy listening on most podcast apps.
AI-Augmented voter guide that aimed at simplifying political information, helping voters find alignments with candidates and initiatives. Winner of TED AI for Good Hackathon.
Context-responsive LLM-powered YouTube summarizer in the style of The Verge.
WikiHow, but unnecessary.
