Rishab Ramanathan
FounderFounder at Openlayer
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedOpenlayer · YC
About
Co-founder of Openlayer, which provides a platform for testing, monitoring, and managing AI models across development and production environments.
Rishab Ramanathan @rishramanathan
4/ Our mission at Openlayer is to operationalize a system of continuous governance, allowing AI systems to evolve alongside their guiding principles. Here’s the full post with a more detailed breakdown on how we arrived at this framework 👇 https://t.co/1aq9emWMXg
Oct 16, 2024 · ♥ 3
Rishab Ramanathan @rishramanathan
3/ The only real solution to the reliability problem is a governance-inspired approach—exactly like how societies rely on constitutions to guide human behavior. Think about some of the different “constitutions” we rely on: The United Nations charter. The Declaration of
Oct 16, 2024 · ♥ 2
Rishab Ramanathan @rishramanathan
2/ Unfortunately, the reliability problem isn’t going to vanish with better models or regulation — the more these models can do, the broader their scope (we can do a lot more good as well as bad with GPT-4o than we could with BERT). We need to own the problem.
Oct 16, 2024 · ♥ 2
Founder at OpenlayerYC S21
Intro paths
Rishab went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Openlayer's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Rishab can intro founders to Openlayer's investors below.
Openlayer's investors · 9
Co-founders at Openlayer
Experience
- OpenlayerCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- AppleMachine Learning Engineer2019 — 2021Cupertino, California
- IBMAI Researcher2018Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
- EsriProduct Manager2017Redlands, California, United States
- AutomaticFirmware / Hardware Engineer2015 — 2016San Francisco, California, United States
Education
- Yale UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science2014 — 2019
- Mallya Aditi International SchoolHigh School, AICE Diploma (Cambridge A Levels)2001 — 2014
Skills & more
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VerilogPrinted Circuit Board (PCB) DesignApplication-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)From Rishab's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Yale University534
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Shared employers
Also worked at Openlayer5
Also worked at Apple302
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