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Mallika Iyer

AI Infrastructure, Compute Economics & LLM Systems Practioner, Ex-Google Cloud AI Leader, Ex-CoreWeave, 2x Founder

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cloud hyperscalers; foundational models llms; ai products and applications

Mallika Iyer

AI Infrastructure, Compute Economics & LLM Systems Practioner, Ex-Google Cloud AI Leader, Ex-CoreWeave, 2x Founder

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Mallika Iyer is a technology executive, engineer, and product leader with expertise across AI, machine learning, observability, and search, with 15+ years building and launching products used by millions of users. She is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and Managing Partner of Arya AI, Co-Founder of MetricWolf (an observability company), and the former Global Head of Product AI/ML for Google Cloud, and has led AI Engineering for CoreWeave, a GPU-as-a-service company. Her focus areas include Large Language Models, Neural Machine Translation, NLP, Localization, Knowledge Graphs, MLOps, and Explainable AI.

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The physical and computing foundations that make AI possible, from chip design and hyperscale cloud to data center power, cooling, and connectivity. Experts here help clients understand what it takes to build and scale AI at the infrastructure level.

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Career History

Careers Timeline

Apr 2026 – Current

Founder — AI Briefly

 

Jan 2023 – Apr 2026

Founder & Managing Partner — Arya AI

Provided strategic AI/ML guidance to enterprises and startups across platform, product, and infrastructure domains, advising 200+ organizations on AI readiness, LLM integration, observability, governance, and MLOps strategy.

 

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

Co-Founder & CEO — Metric Wolf

Co-founded an early-stage, pre-seed AI observability platform focused on LLM and model performance visibility; launched MVP at OpenSearchCon 2024.

 

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

AI Architecture & Performance Lead — CoreWeave, Inc.

Led AI performance and architecture initiatives across CoreWeave's GPU-accelerated infrastructure, optimizing inference throughput, latency, and cost efficiency for large-scale LLM workloads.

 

Jan 2017 – Jan 2023

Head of Product & Engineering, AI/ML — Google LLC (Google Cloud)

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