Summary
Rayan K is a Co-Founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building applied machine learning products and research-driven prototypes in the San Francisco Bay Area. He launched Vals AI after research roles at Stanford AI Lab—working with Pranav Rajpurkar, Andrew Ng, and Eric Topol—and internships at Microsoft (ONNX) and Palantir’s Gotham project. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he blends ML engineering, model tooling, and system-level deployment. His academic record includes a Stanford BS and MS in Computer Science with near-perfect grades and an Oxford tutorial in reinforcement learning (A+). Early entrepreneurship includes creating Operation Sustain, an educational climate-change game deployed in U.S. schools, reflecting a long-standing drive to pair technical depth with tangible social impact.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Stanford University