People in AI

Developer/architect at BrentOzar.com who relies heavily on AI tools daily for development tasks.

Discussed the timeline for Linux version of Fortnite with new Easy Anti-Cheat software.

Example of independent AI engineer now working at Scale AI building AI products.

RJ Marsan

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Built Android version of Sora in 28 days using Codex and developed speech-to-text system to interact with AI coding agent after injury.

Rob Hamilton

Engineer

Co-Founder & CEO at AnchorWatch, Inc.

AnchorWatch CEO who co-led the Bitcoin Red Team security audit using AI models on Bitcoin repositories.

Co-authored the TorchTPU blog post describing TPU integration with PyTorch.

Collaborator with Vinton Cerf credited as one of the architects of TCP/IP, the networking protocols that became the internet.

Former SpaceX director of flight software leading Reliable Robotics toward FAA certification of autonomous flight systems.

Roger Jin

Engineer

MLE (post-training) at Nous Research

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model, an open-source 30B model for mathematical reasoning.

Rohit Jnagal

Engineer

Distinguished Engineer at Google

Co-authored technical post on Agent Compute Engine for autonomous AI workloads.

Quoted as using Kiro for AWS Cloud and AI solutions development with Terraform and Python.

Romil Bhardwaj

Engineer

Co-founder & CPO at SkyPilot

Co-author of article on scaling autoresearch with GPU clusters and Claude Code agent.

Described Project Rainier as one of AWS's most ambitious infrastructure projects for AI training with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Produces podcast on AI psychosis discussing how models may contribute to users losing touch with reality.

Partnered with Google DeepMind to use generative AI for design prototyping with a fine-tuned model.

Co-author of article about NVIDIA's embedding model fine-tuning pipeline.

Rui Carmo

Engineer

Principal Architect - Azure for Operators, Worldwide at Microsoft

Author who shared lessons on building MCP servers and how to make tool chains work effectively with AI models.

Author of popular article on text as universal interface, now works at OpenAI.

Rustin Banks

Engineer

Tech Entrepreneur, AI Coding at Google Labs

Product Manager at Google Labs who authored the article introducing Stitch's vibe design capabilities with voice control and infinite canvas for AI-native UI design.

Built Clay's GTM engineering agent Sculptor using Claude Managed Agents and Daytona sandboxes.

Ryan Doyle

Engineer

Developer

Used Claude Code to hack his smart TV, removing ads and bloatware and customizing the interface.

Ryan Lopopolo

Engineer

Principal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud at Google

Discussed human attention as the fundamental bottleneck in agentic AI systems on Latent Space podcast.

Ryan Skidmore

Engineer

Developer/Writer at skids.dev

Byline author analyzing Claude's prompt caching economics and deriving the 62.5-minute rule for optimal cache refresh decisions.

Ryan Whitehead

Engineer

Anthropic

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Ryoichi Ando

Engineer

Physics Simulation Engineer at ZOZO, Inc.

Developer and maintainer of ppf-contact-solver, an open-source physics simulation tool for cloth and fabric handling.

Described how Anthropic scaled its continuous-integration infrastructure as Claude agents wrote 80% of shipped code, requiring a 25x increase in CI jobs.

Co-authored article on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge model release.

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam

Engineer

PhD student at NVIDIA

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Using Claude Managed Agents and Modal sandbox for secure orchestration of internal tools.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent security initiatives.

Warned that the Hugging Face breach represents 'Pandora's box is open' regarding AI security threats.

Designed and built Laminar, Ramp's in-house agent harness platform for agentic products.

Sam Lijin

Engineer

Software Engineer at BoundaryML

Authored an article explaining how structured outputs from LLMs can degrade response quality and create false confidence.

Co-authored announcement of Open Knowledge Format specification for organizing LLM knowledge.

Prime Intellect engineer providing recipes and resources for RL training experiments.

Co-author of CUGA research on configurable generalist agents and enterprise deployment patterns.

Google senior staff engineer discussed WeatherNext 3's integration into Google products including Search, Maps and Gemini.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Sammy Azdoufal

Engineer

Software Engineer

Used an AI coding assistant to reverse-engineer DJI Romo robot vacuum security, discovering a vulnerability affecting 7,000 devices.

Creator and maintainer of RedAmon, an autonomous AI framework for running full cyberattacks and auto-patching code.

Authored the Krea 2 Technical Report describing expansive image generation models for creative exploration.

Sanjay Pujare

Engineer

Author at Google

Co-author on Google Developers Blog post about unified API for AI model routing on Google Cloud API Gateway.

Santiago Ferrer

Engineer

Head of Applied AI

Creator of open-source career-ops tool who used it to land a job and now open-sourced it.

Co-authored guest post on post-training open models for tool use and biomedical research with reinforcement learning.

Explains that good code reviews catch bugs, teach knowledge, and help teams move faster with fewer mistakes

Sarthak Rastogi

Engineer

AI Engineer

Built agent-engineer plugin for coding assistants with 11 skills and 4 subagents to improve AI agent engineering practices.

Co-authored technical publication on Microsoft Maia 300 describing energy-efficient agentic inference architecture.

Built a Windows node for OpenClaw that could be demonstrated at Microsoft Build developer conference.

Maintainer who rejected a PR from an autonomous agent, which subsequently published a critical article about him.

Robotics pioneer who challenged Figure AI CEO to demonstrate 8-hour autonomous robot shift, prompting the livestream announcement.

Found and fixed a correctness issue in DeepSpeed ZeRO-1/2 that had persisted for years.

Credited for developing the DOOM code used in the neuron-based game demonstration on the CL1 device.

Byline co-author on Cosmos-H-Dreams surgical world modeling system.

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Sebastiaan Vaessen

Engineer

General Partner at ElevenX Capital

General Intuition team member acknowledged in Series A funding announcement.

Co-founder of AMP who built Borg/GQM scheduler at Google, bringing expertise in compute cluster optimization and scheduling to AMP.

Roscosmos cosmonaut who returned with Kim, completing his third spaceflight with 603 total days in space.

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding work.

Seth Hobson

Engineer

Software Engineer at Major 7 Apps

Curated over 80 specialized sub-agents in a GitHub repository for developer access via plugins

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1T sparse transformer architecture for probabilistic hardware.

Shamez Hemani joined Anthropic as a member of the technical staff after leaving Meta's compute team, where he had worked on data center infrastructure following his departure from OpenAI's Stargate team.

Core contributor to Gemini Embedding 2 paper with equal contributions on multimodal embedding model development.

Shantanu Sarkar, an electrical engineering student, contributed to the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Shar Dara

Engineer

Vercel

Shar Dara described eve, an open-source agent framework with durable execution, sandboxed compute, and built-in evaluations.

Co-authored research on Meta's organizational second brain AI agent that codifies expert knowledge without model retraining.

Core contributor to Gemini Embedding 2 paper with equal contributions on multimodal embedding model development.

Co-author of Walrus, a foundation model for simulating continuum dynamics across diverse scientific domains.

Engineer at GMO AIR who commented on the need for humanoid maintenance services as robots become more popular.

Shubham Saboo

Engineer

Senior AI Product Manager at Google

Published open-source Always On Memory Agent on Google Cloud Platform GitHub, addressing persistent memory challenges in agent design.

NVIDIA researcher contributing to Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety development.

Wrote article explaining how autonomous AI agents can handle payments to other agents and services through a new protocol co-designed with Stripe.

NVIDIA machine learning engineer who staffed the build-a-claw event at GTC, helping participants create custom AI agents and describing the range of use cases from technical to nontechnical attendees.

Sijun Tan

Engineer

project lead at Agentica

Designed and implemented the initial rLLM system for training DeepSWE and co-developed trajectory and step-level GRPO/PPO algorithm.

Equal contribution author on Depth Anything 3 for monocular and multi-view depth estimation.

Simon Boehm

Engineer

Referenced for his blog on optimizing CUDA matmul kernels

Simon Edwardsson

Engineer

Independent Developer at V7

Indie developer who fine-tuned a 360M-parameter language model to act as a terminal with no underlying shell or filesystem.

Simon Last

Engineer

Engineer at Notion

Working with Ivan Zhao on Notion AI product.

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Byline author presenting Microsoft's OptiMind model for natural language to optimization problem conversion.

Sivashankar Sivakanthan stated that for assistive robotics, performance is measured by reliable real-world operation rather than benchmark accuracy alone.

Author of article analyzing patterns in AGENTS.md documentation for AI coding agents.

Jiang contributed to NeMo-DCR during an internship at NVIDIA, enabling rapid cross-cluster model updates for trillion-parameter agentic RL.

Co-authored announcement of native Markdown file support in Google Docs.

Wrote Clay's AI Writing Policy that governs responsible use of AI tools in document creation across the company.

Top Codex user in AI Business Division who uses the tool for design and implementation planning of Kiwami Prediction AI.

Coauthor of announcement on Agentic Resource Discovery specification for publishing and discovering AI capabilities.

Stephen Serrao

Engineer

Student

Built a GPT to help government officials understand economic development reports

SpaceX's 14th employee tasked with sourcing an actuator; built one from scratch for $3,900 under Musk's $5,000 budget.

Steve Kaliski

Engineer

Software Engineer on the Experimental Projects team at Stripe

Co-author of article on designing Checkout for AI agents and previously worked on adding payments to agentic workflows.

Created the self-command MCP tool extension for Gemini CLI

Developer of pxpipe open-source tool that converts text to PNGs to reduce LLM token costs by 59-70% when using Claude and other models.

Steven Liu

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Liu co-authored the TRL v1.0 release post explaining the library's design philosophy and stability model.

Acknowledged security risk in LeRobot and explained deployment security improvements.

Discussed using Claude Code with git worktrees to parallelize AI-assisted development workflows and tested Agent Teams feature.

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding work.

Leads AI Voice Lab at Voices, presenting on full-duplex conversational voice model training data requirements with career background in conversational AI.

Praised Fireworks Training API for boosting experimentation velocity and freeing up the AI team to focus on science and research.

Sunil Pedapudi

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google

Technical lead at Google Data Cloud collaborating on agent evaluation framework using surprisal-based query refinement.

Co-author of technical post on push-based KV transfer improvements in vLLM for disaggregated inference.

Co-chair of IETF AI Preferences working group acknowledged in the robots.txt policy token draft.

Suz Chambers

Engineer

Director, Google Creative Lab at Google

Co-author of Google Blog post about Project Genie, an interactive AI world-building prototype.

Suzanne Wang

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Author of "Anthropic Launches Claude Agent SDK for Building Versatile AI Agents" in Anthropic

Sven Sauleau

Engineer

Cloudflare

Author of "How Cloudflare Runs More AI Models on Fewer GPUs: A Technical Deep-Dive" in Cloudflare Blog

Experimented with Autoresearch following the hype and demonstrated it could be used beyond model training.

Developed rapid water contamination test that uses urobilin detection with smartphone camera integration.

Tadas Antanavicius

Engineer

Registry Maintainer at PulseMCP

Listed as article author and spearheaded the initial registry effort from PulseMCP

Implemented AI agent review system at Bonterra to handle 10x increase in code review volume with human judgment on high-risk changes.

Co-author of the Walrus foundation model research.

Described how Fable 5 models require smaller system prompts and context-based steering rather than hard rules.

Taylor Blau

Engineer

Principal Software Engineer at OpenAI

Referenced in "Git Turns 20: Linus Torvalds Reflects on Core Design Decisions"

Created Headroom proxy software that compresses redundant tokens before reaching LLM APIs, saving users an estimated $700,000.

Pointed out alignment between QRG additions on main content and Google's page experience documentation

Theodor Marcu

Engineer

Author at Cognition

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Thomas Ricouard

Engineer

Software Engineer at OpenAI

Author of article on mastering Codex Mobile for engineering, describing how to use mobile devices as control centers for development work.

Co-authored article on designing AI agents to resist prompt injection attacks.

Acknowledged dangerous Codex/GPT-5.6 failure mode where models unexpectedly deleted files under certain conditions.

Authored OpenAI Cookbook article on context personalization and stateful memory in AI agents.

Co-author of the Tunix library introduction article on Google Developers Blog

Co-authored technical paper on serving DeepSeek-V4-Pro models on H20 GPUs.

Spent ten years at SpaceX leading upper-stage production; described Musk's Algorithm as 'drilled into our minds.'

Tim Davis

Engineer

SVP/GM @ Qualcomm, Co-Founder @ Modular at Modular

Hosting a live Q&A on the new MAX license on Nov 10th at 10 AM PT.

Co-author of guide on fine-tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for robot video generation.

Lead author of Software Engineering at Google discussing how wisdom and charisma become more important when intelligence is commonplace.

Todd Ouska

Engineer

wolfSSL

wolfSSL developer reporting high signal from OSS Scanner reports with 72 of 74 valid and five becoming CVEs.

Released six state-of-the-art Ettin CrossEncoder reranker models ranging from 17M to 1B parameters with training methodology.

Author of "From 8 years down to 6 months: How we built AI to split the monday.com monolith" in monday.com Engineering

Self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist claiming to have deciphered Linear A, an ancient Bronze Age writing system.

Previously worked at Segment and Twilio; co-founder and VP of engineering and hardware at Bedrock Robotics.

Tom Mueller

Engineer

Founder, CEO, and CTO at Impulse Space

SpaceX employee number one who became VP of Propulsion, one of five people offered spots on the founding team.

Author of "Lessons from building Claude Code" in Anthropic

Testimonial on Claude Platform on AWS providing direct access to native Claude API features with AWS IAM integration and consistent performance.

Referenced in "GitHub's Tutorial On Managing Large Codebases Using Markdown"

Managed to extract details of GPT-5's hidden system prompt through reverse engineering

Co-founder of Armadin, serves as CTO.

Tristan Hume

Engineer

Lead at Anthropic

Designed the take-home test for hiring performance engineers and wrote about how Claude models have progressively outperformed human candidates on the test.

Tudor Achim

Engineer

Co-Founder & CEO at Harmonic

Quoted in WebProNews coverage on hallucinations as intrinsic to LLMs and necessary for surpassing human intelligence.

Provided targeted technical insights and practical assistance strengthening critical study components.

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Tyson Singer authored the post about Spotify's Xirp agentic development environment.

Usama Bin Shafqat

Engineer

AI Engineer at Google

Co-author of Google's NotebookLM update announcement describing agentic chat capabilities and research improvements.

NVIDIA researcher who contributed to development of Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety multimodal safety model.

Leads product and technology at Graphwise, presenting on semantic data infrastructure for agentic systems with 15+ years of software development experience.

Victor Ciura

Engineer

Principal Engineer on the Rust tooling team in Microsoft DevDiv at Microsoft

Guest author on Rust becoming tier-1 language at Microsoft.

Author of LangChain article explaining LangSmith Connections system for managing credentials in Managed Deep Agents.

Victor Nunez

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Raced Terra against Sol to demonstrate Terra's computer use capabilities by having each model fill out a long web form.

Described Fable 5 as his 'personal singularity moment' after using it on HVM5 interaction-net evaluator project, achieving 1770% speedup on one benchmark.

Google product manager who presented on Universal Cart shopping feature and Shopping Graph at Google I/O 2026.

Vidya Rajagopalan detailed Rivian's third generation autonomy compute platform and the Rivian Autonomy Processor (RAP1), a proprietary silicon chip.

Developed Parakeet Redux, compressing NVIDIA's speech model from 1.2GB to 178MB while achieving 113x realtime performance on CPU.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Vincent Koc

Engineer

Chief Architect at The OpenClaw Foundation

Expressed support for deploying agents like OpenClaw securely into Windows ecosystem with RTX Spark.

OpenAI privacy engineer who was deposed in copyright litigation and inadvertently revealed OpenAI's ability to search ChatGPT logs.

Vincent Sunn Chen

Engineer

Researcher at Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI researcher who noted that score revisions are routine before product launches as checkpoints and configurations shift.

Co-author of Google Blog article on Gemini Notebook's new creative control features for slides and videos.

Authored blog post on A2UI Express, a new inference format for faster generative UI experiences.

Co-author of Generative UI research on dynamically creating immersive visual experiences.

Vishnu Sivaji

Engineer

Writer at Google

Google employee who authored the announcement of new Gemini tools for small business owners.

Vittorio Romeo

Engineer

Software Engineer

Created Open Hexagon, a free open-source PC version inspired by Super Hexagon game before the original came to PC.

Vladimir Vuskovic

Engineer

Director Product Management at Google Cloud

Co-author announcing AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms.

Created the Telegram extension for Gemini CLI

Wai Hon Law

Engineer

Google

Co-authored a blog post on Google Developers Blog about on-device function calling in Google AI Edge Gallery.

Listed as a team member associated with the NotebookLM project.

Co-author of FSDP2 training tutorial on fully sharded data parallel for distributed model training.

Wes Roth

Engineer

Focused on Pokémon demo showing vision-only play without grids, maps, or navigation systems in video walkthrough.

Co-author of FSDP2 training tutorial on fully sharded data parallel for distributed model training.

Will Newton

Engineer

Principal Product Designer at Amplitude

Building Design Agent using Claude Managed Agents and Cloudflare for on-brand UI and marketing design.

Contributed to the AI-Native SDLC playbook for Anthropic's Applied AI team.

Woosuk Kwon

Engineer

Building vLLM at Inferact

Co-authored technical article on TPU megakernels achieving 700 TPS on Kimi K3 with speculative decoding.

Co-authored article detailing Waymo's approach to world models for self-driving cars.

Donated OpenSandbox general-purpose sandbox platform to AAIF for agent execution.

Co-authored technical post on Cohere's megakernel serving engine for North Mini Code.

Xiaoyin Qu

Engineer

Former Senior Product Manager at Meta

Former Meta product manager who noted that AI companies spend billions only to have Chinese free models wipe out their margins.

verl framework developer working on RL training infrastructure.

Acknowledged that AI safety capability currently lags model capability development and identified new risks like AI self-replication.

Xuting Liu

Engineer

Inferact

Co-authored technical article on TPU megakernels achieving 700 TPS on Kimi K3 with speculative decoding.

YaGuang Li

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

verl framework developer working on reinforcement learning infrastructure.

Yanbei Chen

Engineer

Researcher at Meta AI

Designed the project scope, developed the MobileMoE model architecture, the end-to-end training recipe and data, ran all experiments, and wrote the paper.

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Yara Rizk

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Co-author of article on model routing systems and their optimization challenges.

Co-author on Cursor's agent sandboxing blog post describing secure sandbox implementation for local coding agents.

First GTM engineer at Clay who explores AI usage by probing candidates about nuances learned over time

Yauhen Babakhin

Engineer

Applied Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Co-author of FSDP2 training tutorial on fully sharded data parallel for distributed model training.

Yifan Yang

Engineer

Microsoft

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills at Microsoft.

Professional player who publicly doubted Grok could beat T1 or himself, jokingly promising to shave his head if Grok wins

Paper author and lead researcher who developed VitalID biometric authentication system using skull vibrations from breathing and heartbeats.

Yogya Kalra

Engineer

College student and early tester of ChatGPT Atlas who used it during lectures to understand material better.

Quoted discussing Money Forward's use of Cursor's self-hosted cloud agents for enabling engineers to create pull requests from Slack.

Stated that UPS is integrating generative AI into its operations and confirmed 'With enough data, everything becomes predictable' and 'Generative AI is real, and it's happening' within UPS.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Co-authored technical paper on serving DeepSeek-V4-Pro models on H20 GPUs.

Co-authored article announcing improvements to Cursor's Bugbot tool.

Co-authored technical paper on serving DeepSeek-V4-Pro models on H20 GPUs.

verl framework developer contributing to RL training system development.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Core contributor to Gemini Embedding 2 paper with equal contributions on multimodal embedding model development.

Zheng Chen contributed mechanical engineering expertise to the MyoStep project.