Meet the people building tomorrow’s compute platform.

It takes a united team to change the face of machine learning at scale. At Groq, you will work with some of the world’s most talented engineers and leaders to shape the future of compute. Be a part of our roster.

Mark Wong-VanHaren :: Software Engineer

Mark has 30 years experience in software development. He co-founded Excite.com, was CTO of ecommerce site Glyde, and served as VP R&D at Wordnik. Over the years, he's designed and built a wide range of tools and products, including: a special-purpose search engine, a columnar DBMS, a category-best iPhone app, and a templating language and compiler. At Groq, Mark works on our compiler as well as developer tools. He especially enjoys taking complex problems and mercilessly simplifying, usually using a functional programming language. Mark studied computational linguistics at Stanford and maintains a strong interest in natural and programming languages. Outside of work, Mark enjoys tandem biking and creating music with his family band.

Rebekah Leslie-Hurd :: Software Engineer, Compiler Team Lead

Rebekah is a computer scientist with a love of computer architecture and the software systems that make hardware work. Although her career has been devoted to these low-level systems, including designing hardware architecture extensions at Intel, Rebekah prefers to approach these areas through the lens of higher level abstractions and modern computer science techniques: coding in functional programming languages and making use of strong static types. As the head of the compiler team, Rebekah’s focus is on leveraging Groq hardware to achieve best-in-class performance for machine learning workloads. When she isn’t working, you’ll find Rebekah riding her bike, traveling the world, and raising two small humans.

Max Baker :: Distinguished Engineer

Max has over 20 years experience in leading design of semiconductors and software, with over 20 tapeouts under his belt. He has worked for a variety of companies from startups to Fortune 500: including Xilinx, Rambus Cryptography Research, and Tabula. Previous projects have included lead roles in the design of radiation-hardened FPGAs and hardware debug of time-division multiplexed datapaths. Max bootstrapped and ran an IP business unit across multiple geographies creating side-channel protected cryptographic cores for ASICs, leading roadmap creation, team development, and technical direction. Max earned a masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Outside of work you will find him on the ski slopes, or driving around in circles at one of the local racetracks.

Mark Wong-VanHaren :: Software Engineer

Mark has 30 years experience in software development. He co-founded Excite.com, was CTO of ecommerce site Glyde, and served as VP R&D at Wordnik. Over the years, he’s designed and built a wide range of tools and products, including: a special-purpose search engine, a columnar DBMS, a category-best iPhone app, and a templating language and compiler. At Groq, Mark works on our compiler as well as developer tools. He especially enjoys taking complex problems and mercilessly simplifying, usually using a functional programming language. Mark studied computational linguistics at Stanford and maintains a strong interest in natural and programming languages. Outside of work, Mark enjoys tandem biking and creating music with his family band.

Rebekah Leslie-Hurd :: Software Engineer, Compiler Team Lead

Rebekah is a computer scientist with a love of computer architecture and the software systems that make hardware work. Although her career has been devoted to these low-level systems, including designing hardware architecture extensions at Intel, Rebekah prefers to approach these areas through the lens of higher level abstractions and modern computer science techniques: coding in functional programming languages and making use of strong static types. As the head of the compiler team, Rebekah’s focus is on leveraging Groq hardware to achieve best-in-class performance for machine learning workloads. When she isn’t working, you’ll find Rebekah riding her bike, traveling the world, and raising two small humans.

Max Baker :: Distinguished Engineer

Max has over 20 years experience in leading design of semiconductors and software, with over 20 tapeouts under his belt. He has worked for a variety of companies from startups to Fortune 500: including Xilinx, Rambus Cryptography Research, and Tabula. Previous projects have included lead roles in the design of radiation-hardened FPGAs and hardware debug of time-division multiplexed datapaths. Max bootstrapped and ran an IP business unit across multiple geographies creating side-channel protected cryptographic cores for ASICs, leading roadmap creation, team development, and technical direction. Max earned a masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Outside of work you will find him on the ski slopes, or driving around in circles at one of the local racetracks.

Jennifer Hwang :: Hardware Verification Manager

Jen is an engineer at heart. She has spent her entire career building ASICs, with over 30 successful tape-outs under her belt. Starting at MIT, Jennifer graduated with her Masters and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering. No stranger to startups, she was a part of Silicon Spice startup, which was acquired by Broadcom. Jen became a Director of Engineering responsible for Broadcom’s cellular processor division for hardware verification with a multi-site global team. At Groq, she is leading the Hardware verification team creating ASICs for machine learning. Specifically, she loves to roll up her sleeves and up to her elbows in the details of how things work. In her free time, she supports her family — reading, skiing, and serving as a parent-volunteer for her two growing kids at school.

Kyle Aubrey :: Director, Applications Engineering

Kyle has spent the last 20 years building best-in-class field engineering support organizations for a variety of high-tech semiconductor companies, including Marvell, Cavium, and Freescale (now NXP). In his past leadership roles, he has had the opportunity to drive countless strategic initiatives to grow and scale the business while building rock star applications and 24/7 support engineering teams capable of enabling customer designs worldwide. At Groq, Kyle leads our customer applications engineering organization focused on the delivery, demonstration, and support of Groq’s ML silicon, hardware, system software, and development tools. Kyle holds a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. When he’s not geeking out, Kyle enjoys traveling the world and spending time with his family in the Bay Area.

Mahitha Venigalla :: Hardware Engineer

Mahitha brings over 14 years of experience in ASIC/FPGA Design Verification and Validation with specialization in IO. She has a varied experience building SoCs/FPGA based systems from her previous stints at Intel, Ericsson, and Xilinx. At Groq, she is part of the Hardware team creating ASICs for machine learning . Mahitha earned a masters in Electrical Engineering from SJSU and her passion for learning cutting edge technologies and working with incredibly sharp and dedicated people drives her to deliver the best. Outside of work, she likes to travel, cook, play board games, and spend time with friends and family.

Adrian Macias :: Machine Learning Systems Specialist

A principal technologist with advanced degrees in both Communications and Signal Processing, Adrian Macias has over 20 years of experience in every aspect of development. He began his career as a NASA engineer, and then became a tech startup entrepreneur before moving to technology and leadership roles at major fortune 500 semiconductor companies. As a machine learning system specialist, Adrian is passionate about helping others to use Groq’s technology to build elegant solutions for machine learning workloads. When Adrian isn’t traveling the globe supporting Groq customers, he enjoys living in San Diego with his family.