VP of Engineering at Crusoe
Pleasanton, CA
Joined October 2010
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“Platform Engineering at Palo Alto Networks: Part-2” by Ramesh Nampelly
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Congratulations to @AnjneyMidha and the entire @amppublic team! @CrusoeAI is thrilled to be a launch partner with the National Compute Grid. The world needed this and I’m excited to make more compute more accessible to more innovators!
hundreds of MI355x and B300 nodes
now live on nationalcompute.com
subsidized for all .edu and .govs
it’s time to scale the frontier ecosystem
for the public benefit
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How Crusoe builds a portfolio of different financially returning chip products
“We have a range of different deals that we are doing with the compute we are buying.
We are renting capacity on a long-term basis, call it five-year contracts, to credit-quality customers. There are shorter-term contracts that we will do at higher margins, but they are riskier.
Then there are other services that we provide, like Crusoe Managed Inference and our serverless fine-tuning product. Those contracts are typically much shorter-term in nature, and they end up being higher margin to Crusoe.” @ChaseLochmiller
Love to hear your thoughts @branninmcbee @bernhardsson @vipulved @tuhinone
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We're excited to support @nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform at @CrusoeAI!
Running mission-critical workloads with AI means security has to be built into the infrastructure layer, not bolted on after the fact. By engineering security into the foundation of a platform, we help customers build with both speed and security, without having to trade off one for the other.
At Crusoe, one of our core values is to move fast and make things. Partnering on open, verifiable security infrastructure is how we do that responsibly as agentic AI scales.
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.
But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.
This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.
Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.
Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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I’m thrilled to share that @CrusoeAI has raised $3.9b in our Series F valuing the company at $30.9b and providing the growth capital necessary to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. 8 years in and what a journey it’s been with @Electron_Cowboy. The company is firing on all cylinders right now and our growth opportunities have never been bigger. To everyone who’s been a part of it along the way, thank you! We’re just getting started!! 🚀🚀🚀
Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in Series F, co-led by @Atreidesmgmt, @MubadalaCapital, and @valor Equity Partners.
This capital will help us grow across our AI factories, from large-scale campuses to modular Crusoe Spark units, and continue to innovate with Crusoe Cloud.
The full chain, from electrons to tokens: crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom…
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AI is driving a blue collar labor boom
as we reindustrialize America. Proud to open our new factory in Tulsa!! 🇺🇸🚀🦅
Thanks again @GovStitt and @monroefortulsa for your thoughtful and inspiring words during the ribbon cutting ceremony at @CrusoeAI’s second factory in Tulsa. We are proud to employ 300 great Oklahomans and to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.A. as part of the AI buildout.
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the frontier api era has an expiration date for companies running ai at production scale – and the evidence keeps stacking up
erwan menard, head of product at @CrusoeAI, shared a case on the cloud girl podcast with @pvergadia: a coding assistant company cancelled a nine-figure frontier lab contract to run glm 5.2 on crusoe instead. they wanted to decide when to retire the model, modify it for their product, and pay less than frontier api pricing at scale.
crusoe's thesis is what menard calls "electrons to tokens" – own the full stack from energy sourcing to data center to gpu to inference software. his argument: you deliver cheaper and more reliable tokens than what he describes as a chain where six companies pile margins on top of each other. they run 5 gw under management with a 40 gw energy pipeline, and deploy modular data centers powered by recycled ev batteries and solar from iceland to nevada.
the kicker: crusoe says per-megawatt economics at a 20 mw edge site match what you get at a gigawatt factory. if that holds, edge inference stops being a compromise and becomes the default for latency-sensitive workloads.
source: cloud girl podcast with @pvergadia
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Thanks, @Inc!
Crusoe made the 2026 @inc5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, No. 15 in Energy and Utilities. We're in very good company alongside our partners at @OnEnergyStorage — and we're not slowing down anytime soon.
Join our team: crusoe.ai/about/careers
#Inc5000 #Energy
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Most data centers ready GPU nodes by hand: metadata entered manually, racking on paperwork, validation ad hoc.
Crusoe automated the first mile. Every server goes from racked to provision-ready before anybody has time to ask "is it ready yet?"
How it works → crusoe.ai/resources/blog/bef…
#AIInfrastructure
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Time to go FDE! So the new craze, let's build an FDE business because customers need it. What is an FDE -
1. well versed in AI? - yes
2. Well versed in applying their knowledge to make implementation successful for what I bought from you - yes, Palantir, Frontier Models, now Hyperscalers.
The real question is:
Is the FDE actually building unique product capability in the field that will then be integrated into the product eventually back at the ranch? Or is the FDE building unique capability for my enterprise?
The answer to the question helps determine whether the FDE provider accelerates product development and value capture.
For the customer - higher probability for driving outcomes for sure, but if you have ever worried about vendor reliance - this is the moat of a lifetime.
Use FDEs for sure, but understand the architecture, make sure you understand where the intelligence is being retained in your enterprise:
1. Model weights? Do you have a fine tuned model?
2. Generic model - but organizational memory, context layer and harness?
3. Unique application context and data being leveraged?
No prizes for guessing where the different FDE providers will build that value for you, hence creating the moat for themselves.
Go FDE but tread thoughtfully.
“Unlocking Platform Engineering Success with North Star Metrics and OKRs” by Ramesh Nampelly medium.com/@rnampelly/unlock…
Give same importance if not more than software development to these…. linkedin.com/posts/rameshnam…
How do we get devs to fix security vulnerabilities ? linkedin.com/posts/rameshnam…
The electrical power grid is to electricity what platform engineering is to software.
#platformization #platformengineering #devops #devx
I had the absolute pleasure of having an engaging conversation with Meghana from @harness about one of my most fascinating topics: "How to Track Developer Productivity and Experience." 🚀✨ stay tuned for May 15 to learn more!! #DeveloperTools #DevX
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Just successfully fine-tuned the Falcon 7B model using LoRA on a single A100 GPU! 🚀✨ Impressive results achieved without needing a high-end GPU. Inference speed is lightning-fast too! ⚡️ #AI #DeepLearning #Falcon7B #LoRA #GPUAcceleration
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This post provides a high-level introduction that shows how to get started with project Kubernetes-SIGs/e2e-framework to write and run end-to-end tests for your Kubernetes cluster components
➤ medium.com/programming-kuber…
Happy Father’s Day to all dads out there! linkedin.com/posts/rameshnam…
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#gopaloaltonetworks humbled and proud of the team. Another milestone. Onwards. Next step the best AI Cybersecurity company in the world.
Palo Alto Networks to replace Dish Network in S&P 500
$DISH $PANW
#AInvest #Ainvest_Wire #trade #Finance #tradingtips
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