Lightning AI, the company accelerating the development of an AI-powered world, announced an expanded executive team with strategic new hires from Cohesity, Confluent, Kong and Meta. This new talent deepens core competencies that will accelerate the company’s vision to make building artificial intelligence as simple as building an iOS app. Lightning’s technology empowers researchers and developers to build fully functioning AI products and systems in the cloud, without having to manage complex infrastructure.
Historically, the development of AI-powered products, tools, and services has been limited to large technology companies willing to invest a significant amount of resources and expertise into their creation. Lightning’s fast-growth trajectory is lowering those barriers by unifying the research, development, and infrastructure lifecycle, making it easier and faster than ever before to build powerful AI solutions. The open source Lightning framework (previously called PyTorch Lightning) has been downloaded more than 23 million times since 2019, and has 19.5k GitHub stars and over 700 contributors. More than 10,000 organizations use the Lightning framework, including researchers in both theoretical neuroscience at Columbia University and macroeconomics at the University of British Columbia, as well as Podsights, now part of Spotify’s podcast team.
The new leadership team is uniquely suited to accelerate the next stage of the company’s growth and development to meet the growing market demand for its AI automation platform.
Jatheen Anand joins Lightning as VP of Engineering after spending more than four years at Cohesity, a late-stage data management company, where he also served as VP of Engineering. Jatheen brings more than 23 years of experience in the software industry, including senior engineering roles at Veritas and Symantec. His proven track record of developing world-class products and building high-performing teams from a handful of engineers to hundreds across R&D centers worldwide will enable him to accelerate Lightning’s core engineering efforts. With broad domain expertise that spans data management, security, cloud infrastructure, system architecture and distributed systems, Jatheen will scale Lightning’s engineering team to build best-in-class capabilities and performance.