Ian Eaves is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Madison, Wisconsin with a decade of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems and founding startups. He founded and scaled Grai through product, community, and Y Combinator-backed fundraising, and now leads technical strategy at RamaLama Labs while maintaining active involvement in open-source initiatives tied to containers, auteur-ai, and truth-protocol. His background spans applied ML and data engineering roles at Centene, Monsanto, and agtech firms where he delivered production ML pipelines on Kubernetes, Argo, and Bayesian modeling for high-stakes business outcomes. Trained as a physicist (MS, Drexel), Ian brings rigorous quantitative thinking to product and infrastructure decisions and a history of translating research-grade methods into reliable production services. Colleagues describe him as a builder who blends hands-on engineering with community stewardship and a knack for turning complex domain models into usable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Physics, Master’s Degree Physics at Drexel University
Bachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Baylor University
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Ian Eaves - Chief Technology Officer at RamaLama Labs