On Lounge since Oct 2026
Bastiaan Quast
Member #546FounderL1Founder & CEO, Valiq Security
local AI in the browser, a mini Go inference engine, compiled to WASM
Achievements
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About
Bastiaan Quast is the founder and CEO of Valiq Security, a company he started in 2024 that trains foundation models from scratch. He holds a PhD in development economics from The Graduate Institute, Geneva, worked as an economist at the ITU, and wrote the R packages rnn and decompr. Bastiaan is now building llama.go, a small Go inference engine compiled to WASM that runs AI models in the browser.
Experience
training foundation models from scratch
Business Owner · ValiQ Security
Expert Group: World Economic Survey · ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Machine Learning Engineer · Billtrust
Project Coordinator · United Nations
Economist (consultant) · United Nations
Economist Fellow · Internet Society
Research Assistant · Geneva Graduate Institute
Research Consultant · Geneva Graduate Institute
