Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of generative AI in every industry by making AI accessible to software engineers.
We built the core development platform for machine learning at Meta, worked with OpenAI as a GPT-4 beta partner at Duolingo, and built high performance systems infrastructure at Google, Microsoft and Airbnb. We have faced the 'last mile' issues that often hinder AI's accessibility and readiness for production, and are committed to solving these challenges for others.
We believe that given the right tools, every developer can become an AI practitioner. This is why we are building LastMile AI: to equip developers with the tools they need to build, evaluate and improve AI applications with confidence.
Meet the Team
We are a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, researchers and designers with deep experience in machine learning and developer tooling. We are drawn to hard problems and building products that make a difference.
Sarmad Qadri
Co-Founder & CEO
Andrew Hoh
Co-Founder & CPO
Ryan Holinshead
Founding Engineer
Zak Assoul
Founding Product Experience Lead
Ankush Pala
Software Engineer
Benjamin Reesman
Software Architect
Bill Peterson
CTO
Phil Chang
Head of Business Operations
James Sedgwick
Systems Engineer
Mahtab Sarvmaili
ML Research Fellow
Join the Mission
If you want to push the frontier on the intersection of machine learning and developer tools while working with some of the largest companies in the world, we would love to hear from you.
Our values
Joining a startup is deeply personal, because you're signing up for a mission, and joining a team that embodies certain values. Here is a glimpse of what we hold dear at LastMile.
Be Passionate
This is more than just work because this is more than just a job for us. There may be tough days and long nights, but on the whole this should be a joyful and purposeful endeavor for each of us, something that leaves a mark on our lives – and a small dent in the universe.
People over Bits
We put a piece of ourselves into our products, which are centered around the people who use them. Our responsibility is to each other, and to the people who interact with our products. Everything we do is in service of delighting people.
Always be Experimenting
We keep trying new things and discover new opportunities for our products and our customers. We are iterative and strive to continuously experiment with our products to navigate towards building better experiences for our users.
Investors
backed by top tier venture capital
Backed by Gradient - Google's AI-focused venture fund, alongside top tier angel investors
AME Cloud Ventures
amecloudventures.com
FirstHand Aliance
firsthand.vc
Exceptional Capital
exceptionalcap.com
10x Founders
10xfounders.com
Guillermo Rauch
CEO of Vercel
Andrej Henkler
Joseph Spisak
Head of GenAI Open Source | Meta
Join Us
If you are energized by hard problems in ML, infra and product distribution, and want to have outsized impact in a small team, we would love to hear from you.
