# Ankush Gola

> Ankush Gola is the co-founder and CTO of LangChain. A Princeton electrical engineering graduate, he worked at Facebook and Robust Intelligence before building the first LangChain framework with Harrison Chase in 2022. His published work centers on the practical systems used to build, inspect, evaluate, and deploy AI agents.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at LangChain
- **Organizations:** LangChain, Robust Intelligence, Facebook
- **Education:** B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
- **Known for:** Co-founded LangChain with Harrison Chase and serves as its CTO., Co-built the first LangChain framework in 2022., Authored LangChain technical writing on LangGraph, LangSmith, and SmithDB.

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Graduated from Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering.
- **2015–2019** — Worked at Facebook for four years, including as a senior software engineer.
- **After 2019** — Joined Robust Intelligence and met Harrison Chase.
- **2022** — Built the first LangChain framework with Chase in a GitHub repository.
- **2023** — Co-founded LangChain and announced a $10 million seed round led by Benchmark.
- **2026** — Returned to Princeton for an AI Lab founders talk and published work on SmithDB and LangSmith Fine-Tuning.

## Achievements

- Co-founded LangChain with Harrison Chase and serves as its CTO.
- Co-built the first LangChain framework in 2022.
- Authored LangChain technical writing on LangGraph, LangSmith, and SmithDB.
- Received Princeton’s Bradley Dickinson Award for System Design in 2015.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Co-authored the launch post for LangSmith Fine-Tuning and its smithtune CLI.
- **2026-06** — Co-authored technical posts on full-text search in SmithDB.
- **2026-05** — Announced SmithDB, the data layer behind core LangSmith observability workloads.
- **2026-03** — Spoke at Princeton’s AI Lab Founders Talk with professor Karthik Narasimhan.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankush-gola-77255866
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ankush_gola11
- GitHub: https://github.com/agola11

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Last updated: 2026-09-29