Lepton AI

I was employee number one and a founding member of Lepton AI, and I was responsible for building the product and for its user experience end to end.

Lepton was an AI cloud rather than a GPU rental shop. Inference deployments came with autoscaling, observability and multi-region availability. DevPod gave you a full development environment you could SSH into. Training let a team share a pool of GPUs and queue distributed jobs against it by priority. Underneath all of it sat dedicated compute you could rent from us or bring from your own cloud account.

In SemiAnalysis's ClusterMAX review of the GPU cloud market, Lepton landed in the Gold tier — one below Platinum — alongside Crusoe, Nebius, Oracle, Azure and Together AI, and it was singled out for running across multi-cloud infrastructure.

NVIDIA acquired Lepton in 2025, and the work continues there — I now lead the user experience of NVIDIA DGX Cloud.