Ishan Anand
Fractional Chief AI Officer And AI Consultant at Learning Rate AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIshan Anand is a seasoned product and AI leader with 15+ years building high-performance web platforms, developer tools, and AI initiatives from prototype to multi-million-dollar revenue lines. As a former CTO and VP Product, he led products that outcompeted larger vendors and delivered a successful exit with 5x–12x returns for investors, and grew a product line to nearly $100M ARR at Edgio. Now a Fractional Chief AI Officer and educator, he focuses on making organizations AI-native through consulting, training, and LLM architecture, and is known for creative technical demonstrations like reimplementing GPT-2 in pure Excel. His background spans edge compute, web performance, and headless commerce, combining deep systems engineering (MIT EECS & Math) with product-first execution. Based in Seattle, he co-founded startups and hosts community-focused events, blending hands-on engineering, strategic leadership, and a knack for translating complex AI capabilities into practical business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mathematics, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (78)
salesforce-commerce-cloud10
prismic10
checkout10
compiler10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
react-storefront10
fastest10
portal10
preact10
platform-agnostic10
stripe10
server-side-rendering10
commerce10
graphql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
moovweb/harlem_shaker
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
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