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# Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO of Render, building cloud infrastructure for AI-native apps.

## About

Anurag Goel builds cloud infrastructure. As the founder and CEO of Render, he focuses on making it easier for developers to deploy and scale applications. Before Render, he built the GPU notebook platform Crestle and led the risk organization as Stripe's eighth employee.

Today, he explores how AI changes the way we host software. His talks cover application-defined compute and the reality of running machine-written code in production when no human actually understands it.


## Upcoming Sessions

### World Congress 2026 North America · September 23, 2026
San José, CA
- [Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1836-application-defined)
- [Running AI-Written Software in Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1879-running-ai-written)





## Links

- [X](https://x.com/anuraggoel)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuragoel/)