Founder of a listed tool
Chris Van Pelt
Co-founder; CISO per LinkedIn, named behind the W&B Weave listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Chris builds
W&B Weave B · Agent observability & evals
W&B Weave is CoreWeave Forge's tracing and evaluation service for LLM applications and agents. It takes traces from Python and TypeScript SDKs or an OTLP endpoint and exposes them through a REST Service API.
Co-founder; CISO per LinkedIn, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Lukas Biewald Co-founder, Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
- Phil Gurbacki VP of Product, Weights & Biases
- Shawn Lewis Co-founder, Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
Questions
Who is Chris Van Pelt?
Chris Van Pelt co-founded Weights & Biases in 2017 with Lukas Biewald and Shawn Lewis and is a distinguished engineer there. He and Biewald earlier co-founded Figure Eight, formerly CrowdFlower, a human-in-the-loop machine learning company that Appen acquired. CoreWeave bought Weights & Biases in 2025.
What does Weights & Biases (CoreWeave) make?
Anchor Terminal lists W&B Weave from Weights & Biases (CoreWeave). W&B Weave is CoreWeave Forge's tracing and evaluation service for LLM applications and agents. It takes traces from Python and TypeScript SDKs or an OTLP endpoint and exposes them through a REST Service API.
How are Chris's tools graded?
W&B Weave is graded B, 66.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (11)
- https://wandb.ai/site/company/about-us/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipgurbacki/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipgurbacki
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvanpelt/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvanpelt
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbiewald/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-lewis-asdzxc524a563/details/experience/
- https://wandb.ai/site
- https://wandb.ai/site/support/
- https://wandb.ai/site/contact
- https://wandb.ai/site/support
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