Eli Chen is a Principal Technical Architect and AI engineer based in California with 11 years of leadership experience building production-grade systems and startups. He co-founded Credo AI to operationalize human oversight for AI and previously founded veriph.ai to tackle neural network explainability and testing, blending deep technical know-how with product-driven governance. Earlier roles as CTO at UJET and Tite and engineering leadership at Netflix and Twitter show a long track record of shipping secure, real-time, and consumer-facing streaming and interactive platforms. At AI Fund he now focuses on architecting AI systems at scale, bringing an engineer’s rigor to nascent AI product strategies. His background in EECS from UC Berkeley and early DRM work at iGware suggests a strong foundation in systems, security, and device ecosystems that informs his approach to trustworthy AI. Colleagues would note his mix of founder grit, platform-scale engineering, and a fascination with making gradients—and governance—actually flow in production.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Eli Chen - Principal Technical Architect at AI Fund