Eli Mernit
Co-Founder, CEO at Beam
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEli Mernit is a founder and CEO with eight years of engineering and product experience, currently building Beam — a low-latency AI infrastructure platform that helps teams deploy inference endpoints, autoscale to hundreds of GPUs, run task queues, and train models on cloud or on-prem hardware. Prior to Beam he led subscription platform product engineering at The New York Times, where he focused on internal APIs and lifecycle systems that powered large-scale subscriber workflows. Backed by Y Combinator and Tiger Global, Eli combines hands-on technical execution with investor-grade product strategy to serve developer-first ML teams. He studied at Binghamton University and participated in Y Combinator, blending traditional academic rigor with startup operator training. Notably, his work emphasizes making ML deployments both developer-friendly and production-grade at extreme scale. Based in New York, he thrives at the intersection of infrastructure engineering and product-led growth.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Arts - BA High Honors, Bachelor of Arts - BA High Honors at Binghamton University
Hebrew, python, English
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Github Skills (116)
distributed-computing10
serverless10
paas10
faas10
audio10
generative-ai10
fine-tuning10
functions-as-a-service10
cuda10
speech-to-text10
large-language-models10
tencent9
runtimes9
llm-inference9
speech-processing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
beam-cloud/examples
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Examples for beam.cloud
Contributions:33 reviews, 92 PRs, 72 pushes in 10 months
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slai-labs/docs
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 50 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 month
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