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Peter Salanki

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO since March 2024), CoreWeave

  • Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO since March 2024), CoreWeave12

Peter Salanki is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of CoreWeave, a cloud provider built for training and serving AI models at scale. Salanki has been CTO since March 2024, after leading CoreWeave's engineering organization as Director and then Vice President of Engineering.12

At a glance

Current role
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO since March 2024)
Company
CoreWeave
Sector
Company
Work listed
1
Sources cited
3
Profile reviewed

Career

Before CoreWeave, Salanki was Director, Americas, in the Office of the CTO at Sandvine, an application and network intelligence company, from January 2018 to June 2019. Salanki joined CoreWeave in June 2019 as Director of Engineering and became Vice President of Engineering in April 2022.1

CoreWeave named Salanki Chief Technology Officer in March 2024, and its leadership page lists Salanki among the company's co-founders alongside Mike Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee.12

Products and projects

CoreWeave offers GPU compute and a managed Kubernetes service for AI workloads. In September 2026 the company announced CoreWeave Forge, a development layer that connects the steps of improving models and agents and works across models, frameworks and other clouds.23

Work and contributions

  • CoreWeave Forge

    Development layer CoreWeave announced in September 2026 that runs the loop of running, observing, curating, improving and evaluating models and agents in one environment, launched while Salanki leads the company's technology organization.31

Timeline

  1. Became Director, Americas, Office of the CTO at Sandvine.1
  2. Joined CoreWeave as Director of Engineering.1
  3. Became Vice President of Engineering at CoreWeave.1
  4. Became Chief Technology Officer of CoreWeave.1
  5. CoreWeave announced CoreWeave Forge at its Fully Connected conference.3

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Director of Engineering (2019–2022), then Vice President of Engineering (2022–2024), CoreWeave1
  • Director, Americas, Office of the CTO (2018–2019), Sandvine1

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Peter Salanki — CoreWeave executive leadershipCoreWeave · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  2. About CoreWeave — our teamCoreWeave · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  3. CoreWeave Forge launchesCoreWeave · Announcement · published Sep 30, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026