Ian Eaves
Chief Technology Officer at Sprag
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Eaves is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Madison, Wisconsin with a decade of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems and founding startups. He founded and scaled Grai through product, community, and Y Combinator-backed fundraising, and now leads technical strategy at RamaLama Labs while maintaining active involvement in open-source initiatives tied to containers, auteur-ai, and truth-protocol. His background spans applied ML and data engineering roles at Centene, Monsanto, and agtech firms where he delivered production ML pipelines on Kubernetes, Argo, and Bayesian modeling for high-stakes business outcomes. Trained as a physicist (MS, Drexel), Ian brings rigorous quantitative thinking to product and infrastructure decisions and a history of translating research-grade methods into reliable production services. Colleagues describe him as a builder who blends hands-on engineering with community stewardship and a knack for turning complex domain models into usable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
S22, S22 at Y CombinatorMaster’s Degree, Physics, Master’s Degree, Physics at Drexel UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at Baylor University
Github Skills (171)
postgresql10
python10
pandas-dataframe10
data-lineage10
hip10
type-system10
deep-learning10
profiling10
parquet10
network-service10
hosting10
podman10
type-inference10
data-exploration10
intel10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ieaves/configs
Sep 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
grai-io/grai-core
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:93 reviews, 386 commits, 610 PRs in 7 months
datadatalineagedbtpostgresqlpython
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