Rishab Ramanathan

Rishab Ramanathan is the co-founder of Openlayer, a B2B artificial intelligence tooling and model evaluation startup currently based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2021, the company provides a comprehensive evaluation and monitoring platform designed to help enterprise engineering teams rigorously test, debug, and validate complex machine learning models prior to production deployment. Prior to launching Openlayer through the Y Combinator accelerator program, Ramanathan worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, where he focused on developing advanced predictive algorithms and optimizing data pipelines. He received his formal technical training at Carnegie Mellon University, earning academic credentials that established his foundational expertise in computer science, software engineering, and applied artificial intelligence. Ramanathan currently focuses on scaling Openlayer software infrastructure to establish standardized testing protocols and reliability metrics for commercial machine learning applications across the broader technology sector.