Viraj Mehta
Co-Founder & CTO at TensorZero
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolViraj Mehta is a Co-Founder and CTO with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge robotics research and product-focused ML systems. He earned a Ph.D. from CMU’s Robotics Institute where his work on reinforcement learning, generative models, and dynamical systems was driven by real-world control challenges—most notably plasma control for fusion—and has recently extended those techniques to improve language model alignment. Before founding TensorZero he helped kickstart alternative data and analytics at KKR and automated capital-allocation workflows in private finance, blending academic rigor with high-impact industry applications. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford, with earlier research in 3D vision and robot learning. Based in New York and splitting time across the Bay Area and Tahoe, he’s as comfortable flying airplanes and skiing as he is designing ML systems for expensive, data-scarce scientific problems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (63)
artificial-intelligence10
python10
llama10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
responsive10
ml10
llm10
mlops10
deep-learning10
openai10
github-pages10
llmops10
generative-ai10
jekyll10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tensorzero/tensorzero
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
TensorZero creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM applications — turning production data into smarter, faster, and cheaper models.
Contributions:775 reviews, 553 PRs, 1233 pushes in 6 months
aiai-engineeringanthropicartificial-intelligencedeep-learning
fusion-ml/trajectory-information-rl
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:562 commits in 1 year 4 months
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