Summary
Shreyas Lad is a hands-on founder and engineering leader with nine years of experience building cloud-native, AI-driven systems from prototype to production. As CEO and Co-Founder of Gradient Compute and former CTO of IntualAI, he embeds infrastructure planning into product strategy to deliver resilient, secure, and automatically scalable platforms. He has a strong AWS and full-stack background—designing fault-tolerant distributed systems, unified AI REST APIs, and serverless data pipelines that powered customer-facing features for hundreds of B2B users. Early work includes building swarm-robotics telemetry and low-latency competition APIs for youth education, showing a pattern of applying research-minded tinkering to real-world products. Comfortable tearing systems down and rebuilding them, he pairs pragmatic engineering with developer ergonomics like cross-account CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code. Based in New York and grounded in a CS degree from UCSC, he brings founder grit, production-grade reliability, and a knack for shipping repeatable cloud platforms.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz