Thunder Compute

Carl Peterson

Carl Peterson is the CEO and co-founder of Thunder Compute. He met co-founder Brian Model as a freshman at Georgia Tech and the two maintained a close friendship for over six years before launching the company. His founding insight was that GPU infrastructure was needlessly expensive and complex, and the solution was software-first virtualization rather than more hardware. Previously worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in Atlanta.

Jack Decker

Jack Decker served as Founding Engineer at Thunder Compute from October 2024 to November 2024. He has since moved to a Software Engineer role at Porter (YC S20). Previously worked in R&D at Cisco.

Brian Model

Brian Model is the CTO and co-founder of Thunder Compute. His founding insight came from experience in a Systems for AI lab at Georgia Tech, where researchers were forced to reserve GPUs weeks in advance using Google Sheets. At Citadel Securities, he built low-latency options trading systems, giving him deep systems engineering expertise now applied to GPU orchestration. Describes himself as a 'Fan of C++' on X.