Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Team
Daniel
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Allison
Light
GTM
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Breanna
Manore
Operations
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Jason
Lohrentz
TALENT
Josh
Hernández
TALENT
Justin
Rosenthal
ENGINEERING
Kristopher
Kostelecky
TALENT + GTM
Lewis
Guo
Talent
Lewis believes that building an exceptional company starts with bringing together exceptional people.
With over a decade of recruiting experience, Lewis has developed a knack for finding talented engineers and researchers, understanding what motivates them, and connecting them with founders building ambitious companies. He has a particularly deep network across AI research, ML systems, distributed systems, and infrastructure.
Previous experience
Anyscale
Lewis joined Anyscale as an early employee and helped scale Ray core, train, serve and data team, recruiting talent across distributed systems, ML serving, infra, inference.
Contextual AI
As Head of Talent and one of the company's earliest employees, Lewis helped build the founding research and engineering teams, partnering closely with leadership to attract talent working at the frontier of AI.
The startup journey
Throughout his career, Lewis has focused on helping early-stage technology companies attract exceptional talent, build their foundational teams, and navigate the challenges of scaling.
Lewis loves being in the trenches with founders, especially when the company is still small, the technology is ambitious, and every hire can fundamentally change its trajectory.
Highlights
Speaking the language of engineers
After years of recruiting in technically complex environments and building his own startup, Lewis knows how to translate ambitious technical visions into compelling opportunities that resonate with engineers and researchers.
Building from zero to one
Lewis thrives in the earliest stages of company building, when there is no established recruiting playbook, limited infrastructure, and every hire matters. He partners closely with founders to define what great talent looks like and turn that vision into a team.
Connecting people and opportunities
Lewis believes recruiting is about relationships, not transactions. He's constantly connecting talented people with founders and opportunities where they can make an outsized impact.
Lizhi
Fan
ENGINEERING
Marcus
Gosling
PRODUCT
Marie
Vail Guercio
OPERATIONS
Mikey
Wakerly
ENGINEERING
Nicole
Dumitrescu
OPERATIONS
Ross
Wiethoff
GTM
Stas
Baranov
ENGINEERING
Taylor
Majewski
EDITORIAL + COMMS
Ted
Mao
ENGINEERING
Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Allison
Light
GTM
Breanna
Manore
Operations
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Josh
Hernández
TALENT
Kristopher
Kostelecky
TALENT + GTM
Lizhi
Fan
ENGINEERING
Marie
Vail Guercio
OPERATIONS
Nicole
Dumitrescu
OPERATIONS
Stas
Baranov
ENGINEERING
Ted
Mao
ENGINEERING
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Jason
Lohrentz
TALENT
Justin
Rosenthal
ENGINEERING
Lewis
Guo
Talent
Lewis believes that building an exceptional company starts with bringing together exceptional people.
With over a decade of recruiting experience, Lewis has developed a knack for finding talented engineers and researchers, understanding what motivates them, and connecting them with founders building ambitious companies. He has a particularly deep network across AI research, ML systems, distributed systems, and infrastructure.
Previous experience
Anyscale
Lewis joined Anyscale as an early employee and helped scale Ray core, train, serve and data team, recruiting talent across distributed systems, ML serving, infra, inference.
Contextual AI
As Head of Talent and one of the company's earliest employees, Lewis helped build the founding research and engineering teams, partnering closely with leadership to attract talent working at the frontier of AI.
The startup journey
Throughout his career, Lewis has focused on helping early-stage technology companies attract exceptional talent, build their foundational teams, and navigate the challenges of scaling.
Lewis loves being in the trenches with founders, especially when the company is still small, the technology is ambitious, and every hire can fundamentally change its trajectory.
Highlights
Speaking the language of engineers
After years of recruiting in technically complex environments and building his own startup, Lewis knows how to translate ambitious technical visions into compelling opportunities that resonate with engineers and researchers.
Building from zero to one
Lewis thrives in the earliest stages of company building, when there is no established recruiting playbook, limited infrastructure, and every hire matters. He partners closely with founders to define what great talent looks like and turn that vision into a team.
Connecting people and opportunities
Lewis believes recruiting is about relationships, not transactions. He's constantly connecting talented people with founders and opportunities where they can make an outsized impact.
Marcus
Gosling
PRODUCT
Mikey
Wakerly
ENGINEERING
Ross
Wiethoff
GTM
Taylor
Majewski
EDITORIAL + COMMS