# Chris Van Pelt (slim)

> Chris Van Pelt is co-founder; CISO per LinkedIn. W&B Weave on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder; CISO per LinkedIn.

Chris Van Pelt co-founded Weights & Biases in 2017 with Lukas Biewald and Shawn Lewis and is a distinguished engineer there.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvanpelt

## What Chris builds

- [W&B Weave](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wandb-weave.md), graded B, 66.8/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Lukas Biewald](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lukas-biewald/), Co-founder, Weights & Biases (CoreWeave)
- [Phil Gurbacki](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-gurbacki/), VP of Product, Weights & Biases
- [Shawn Lewis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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.

### What does Weights & Biases (CoreWeave) make?

Anchor Terminal lists W&B Weave from Weights & Biases (CoreWeave).

### 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

- 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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