maddy arvapally

Hi, I'm Maddy, founder of ZeroGPU.

I'm a hardcore engineer and systems architect by training. Over the last decade, I've led and built large-scale production systems across streaming, adtech, blockchain, robotics, and applied research.

Most recently, I led engineering at a blockchain company called Replay. I've also consulted on adtech engineering and video streaming products for B20 Labs. Before that, I led software development at GoPro and was part of the core engineering team that launched GoPro's streaming service from the ground up, scaling it from $0 to over 5 million subscribers. Earlier in my career, I worked at a robotics startup and conducted research in brain modeling at the Mind Research Network.

AI is disrupting every vertical and becoming part of everyday life. Trillions of dollars are being committed globally to build massive data centers to support the next generation of AI applications, and that investment makes sense. AI inference is just getting started, and it represents a trillion-dollar market opportunity that will form the foundation of the future.

At the same time, compute is already everywhere.

Every phone, laptop, TV, edge device, and robot already ships with a GPU or an AI-optimized processor. Each new hardware generation pushes this even further. The real gap is not compute availability. The real gap is orchestration.

If you can harness the idle power of millions of devices into a coordinated grid, build a reliable orchestration layer, and expose inference through simple APIs, then faster, cheaper, globally distributed AI inference becomes possible. This unlocks everything from basic summarization and classification to powerful vertical AI applications and real-time inference for robotics and autonomous systems.

That is why ZeroGPU exists.

After being a software engineer for most of my life, I recently took a break to become a mom after having my second child. When I came back, I saw just how much coding and software development had evolved. We are now living in the age of the idea person. With modern AI tooling and prompt engineering, building is faster than ever. The hard part is solving the right problems, designing systems that scale, and getting go-to-market right.

I've also been deeply inspired by my life partner, who has been an entrepreneur his entire life. He helped identify the gap in the market that became ZeroGPU, and I've taken that vision and run with it.

ZeroGPU is about rethinking how AI inference should work in a world where compute is everywhere.