Ishan Anand is the creator of Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need, a course that teaches the inner workings of large language models (LLMs) through an implementation of GPT-2 (a precursor to ChatGPT) entirely within Excel. He was most recently VP of Product for Edgio Applications, a platform that leverages edge computing, serverless, and AI/ML to enable enterprise teams to accelerate, host, and secure their high-stakes websites. Ishan joined Edgio via the acquisition of Layer0, where he was the CTO and co-founder. Ishan is an experienced speaker on AI, Jamstack, and web performance for conferences such as AI Engineer World’s Fair, AI Tinkerers, Next.js Conf, CascadiaJS, React Day New York, O’Reilly OSCON and more. Ishan holds dual B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from MIT.