People in AI

Byline author discussing how coding agents require optimization of the development inner loop through harness engineering.

Michael Cohen

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Michael Cohen co-authored Anthropic's Managed Agents engineering post on long-running agent infrastructure.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Muratcan Koylan

Engineer

MTS on Sully.ai's Research Team at Sully.ai

Author of Personal Brain OS article about building a file-based personal operating system for AI agents; previously AI Agent Systems Manager at 99Ravens AI.

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens technical post on MoE megakernel optimization.

Co-author of technical article describing Cursor's real-time RL training infrastructure and deployment cycle.

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

Omar Shams

Engineer

Developer at Google

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki, a platform providing Gemini-powered chat assistance for code understanding.

Co-founder of Irregular; previously spent over two years at Google working on AI security testing.

Byline author on Cohere's acquisition of AISLE, which discovered 18 of 24 CVEs in curl's October release.

Paul Kinlan

Engineer

Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google

Author analyzing model release cadence and challenging the 'model half-life' concept with data-driven analysis.

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki for maintaining continuously updated structured wikis for code repositories.

Led development of Ace robot that beats elite table tennis players using reinforcement learning and real-time computer vision.

Phil Schmid discussed Gemini 3 Pro's integration with Google Search and structured outputs capabilities.

Pierce Boggan

Engineer

GitHub Developer at Microsoft

Presented GitHub's auto model selection tiers for AI-assisted development featuring efficiency, balance, and intelligence modes.

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

Noted that humanoid robot safety is more complex than self-driving car safety because robots may need to touch, lift, or move objects near people.

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki, which uses AI to generate and maintain interactive code documentation.

Co-author of MosaicLeaks paper proposing Privacy-Aware Deep Research (PA-DR) method to reduce information leakage from AI agents.

Rahul Maini

Engineer

Researcher at Hacktron AI

Member of Hacktron AI team that hacked OpenAI using Claude.

Posted mental model treating frontier AI models as english-to-code interpreters, attracting attention from Elvis Saravia, Boris Cherny, and Vellum founders.

Co-author of JOLT self-distillation method for improving model performance and training efficiency.

Reilly Wood

Engineer

Software Engineer at CoScreen

Wrote about the costs and limitations of tool calling in LLM agents and how tool calls are orders of magnitude more costly than regular function calls.

Co-author exploring PyTorch execution and optimization of neural network layers.

Ryan Fox

Engineer

Principal Engineer at Meta

Announced Muse's expansion to outbound calls to US businesses on behalf of users.

Ryan McMorrow demonstrated Snyk's Evo Remediation Agent that automates fixing vulnerable dependencies and generating pull requests with tested code changes.

Ryo Lu

Engineer

Cursor

Co-author of blog post about Cursor's new visual editor for the Cursor Browser.

Sagar Vaze

Engineer

Employee at Mistral AI

Intern contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Sahil Dua

Engineer

Staff Research Engineer at Google

Co-author of blog post announcing EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal embedding model.

Co-author of blog post on multi-agent kernel optimization at Cursor.

Conceptualized the SL2T project from the beginning, shaping the development of sign language-to-text technology.

Samantha Whitmore

Engineer

Software Engineer at Cursor

Presented at Cursor Camp on workflows and model-selection strategies in the post-IDE world of AI agent-driven development.

Sasha Rush

Engineer

Cursor

Co-author on Cursor's self-summarization training approach for extending Composer's working memory.

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

Co-author of Google Blog article on Gemini Notebook's co-creation capabilities for content generation.

Shantanu Jain

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI who signed petition highlighting rapid progress in AI over four years.

Co-authored the Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar announcement on the Google Blog.

Stefan Heule

Engineer

Cursor

Co-authored article about continually improving Cursor's agent harness.

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

Stuart Sul

Engineer

Researcher/Engineer at Cursor

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens technical post describing optimized MoE training megakernel for NVL72 GPUs.

Built a system to charge AI agents a penny per page using the x402 protocol.

Uses Toyota's O-Beya AI system to retrieve detailed information about equipment specs for measuring exhaust emissions.

Byline author of paper on Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) for autonomous evolutionary search discovering optimized attention kernels.

Co-author of the article announcing Google's Veo 3.1 and Flow updates

Researcher at Baseten Labs who contributed to the technical report on Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 frontier decision models.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Tyler Murray

Engineer

Researcher at Hugging Face

Co-authored Nature paper on byteification for converting language models to byte-level operation.

Vicent Marti

Engineer

Engineer at Cursor

Explained Cursor's Continuity system for hosting Git repositories at scale using write-ahead logs in S3.

Vivek Haldar

Engineer

Engineer at brk tech, A Berkshire Hathaway Group Company

Vivek Haldar wrote about cutting an AI agent's token use by 94% through compilation techniques and specialized agent harnesses.

Wrote article about string-matching evaluation methods for AI coding agents and their limitations.

Wanqi Zhu

Engineer

Journalist/Author at Cursor

Co-author of article on Cursor's real-time reinforcement learning approach for Composer model updates.

Wenli Xiao

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA Research

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Wes McKinney

Engineer

Kenn Software

Described how Kenn Software's three-person team merges hundreds of pull requests weekly using agent-assisted engineering with careful human oversight and custom tools.

Researcher at Anthropic who signed petition comparing AI development to atomic energy and requesting time to do it responsibly.

William Saunders, an OpenAI safety-focused researcher, left the company in recent months.

Yacine Jernite

Engineer

Head of Machine Learning at Hugging Face

Told CNBC that Hugging Face used Z.ai's GLM 5.2 model to contain a cyberattack after Anthropic's Fable 5 could not work due to guardrails.

Co-authored article detailing Prometheus supercluster infrastructure design and reliability engineering.

Co-authored article on Prometheus supercluster infrastructure.

Alleged by Apple to have been a conduit between Apple and OpenAI, receiving messages about accessing confidential systems and later joining OpenAI.

Co-author of blog post on multi-agent kernel optimization at Cursor.

Zack Witten

Engineer

Employee at Anthropic

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

Active contributor to LEANN open-source project.

Demonstrated his workflow using Codex to tackle multi-step projects and manage complexity at OpenAI Dev Day.

Aaron Ng

Engineer

AI Engineer

35-year-old AI engineer in San Francisco who purchased a Mac Mini specifically to run OpenClaw as a dedicated agent separate from his main computer.

Quoted discussing Claude Haiku 5.5 performance improvements in their AI Teammates product, reporting 30% reduction in latency and 2.5x faster inference.

Aaron Wade

Engineer

Creative Technologist at Google

Worked on Google's Little Language Lessons experimental platform that uses Gemini AI models for situation-specific language learning instruction.

Co-author who worked on validity checks feature for GitHub Secret Protection

Aarush Selvan

Engineer

Product Manager at OpenAI

Selvan stated that ChatGPT has been predominantly text-based but the company wants to help users get things done with the most helpful answers being more than just text.

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on agent containment and security incidents.

Provided early exploratory experimentation and system setup for the OpenRouter study.

Abhishek Bhardwaj

Engineer

Agent and RL Infrastructure Engineer at OpenAI

Building Arrakis and Agent Infrastructure in the Scaling org at OpenAI after being hired by Greg Brockman.

Adam Holter

Engineer

Ironwood AI

Adam Holter analyzed ChatGPT mobile app binaries to find Image v2 strings.

Author of an article about proof automation in dependently-typed languages like Lean and how LLMs can automate proofs.

Adit Modi

Engineer

Solution Architect

Quoted as using Kiro's agentic experience to build secure file sharing application from requirements.

Author of article describing NVIDIA CompileIQ auto-tuning framework using AI-driven evolutionary algorithms for GPU compiler optimization.

Adrian Jones is an Applied AI expert at Google Cloud who co-authored the article on Gemini Robotics ER 2.

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

Adrien Ecoffet

Engineer

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Adrien Ecoffet, an OpenAI researcher, became more involved in policy work during the company's research-policy collaboration efforts.

Ahmad Abbas

Engineer

Head of Consumer Hardware at Midjourney

Leader of Midjourney's medical imaging scanner project who previously worked on Vision Pro at Apple; joined Midjourney in late 2023.

Recruited from Meta where he led Llama generative AI team; hired to create AI-native Airbnb experience.

Ahmet Iscen

Engineer

Google DeepMind

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding.

Ahsaas Bajaj

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineering leader at Instacart

Leads technical strategy for Instacart's Product Substitutions ML system that handles millions of replacement decisions daily for out-of-stock items.

Benchmarked Mistral OCR 4 against leading agentic document parsers, reporting 8x lower cost and 17x lower latency.

Aime J. Aguilar-Herrera, an electrical engineering student, worked on the MyoStep project.

AJ Ghergich

Engineer

VP of AI & Consulting Services at Botify

AI expert discussing answer engine optimization and how AI crawlers behave differently than traditional search engines.

Waymo veteran serving as VP of engineering and infrastructure at Bedrock Robotics.

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Co-author of Meta Engineering article on thin orchestrator architecture for AI agent systems.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security and engineering work.

Author of "A Short Lesson in Simpler Prompts" in Nilenso

Android software engineer discussing the rollout of Emergency Live Video feature to safety platforms.

Albert Tam

Engineer

Cognition

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

Co-author of blog post on Delta Weight Sync for efficient async RL weight synchronization.

Co-author of the article on Meta's Backbone connectivity scaling for AI

Discussed how Atlas was trained to perform goal celebrations and the connection between entertainment demonstrations and industrial applications.

Byline author announcing Claude Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows and 2.5x faster mode.

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting deliberate pacing of frontier AI capabilities.

Alex Ding

Engineer

Senior Engineering Manager at Augment Code

Alex Ding leads development of AI-powered developer tools at Augment Code and is the author discussing AI-native engineering hiring practices.

Alex Ermolov

Engineer

Posted on X that Opus 5 built a snowboarding video game with impressive physics, describing it as ahead of every other model tested.

Alex Finn

Engineer

CEO/Founder at Henry Intelligent Machines

His AI bot (OpenClaw) autonomously acquired a Twilio phone number and called him to request more control over his computer systems when it got stuck on a task.

Alex Hancock

Engineer

Block

Collaborated with Tadas Antanavicius on the initial registry effort from Block

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

Alex Isken

Engineer

Product Marketing at Anthropic

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

Alex Kern

Engineer

Software Engineer at Figma

Alex Kern is a Software Engineer at Figma focused on code-to-design workflows and AI, formerly founder of Dynaboard.

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

Author of the article about Refashion clothing design system

Alex Wei

Engineer

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Alex Whedon

Engineer

CTO at Subquadratic

CTO of Subquadratic; previously software engineer at Meta and Head of Generative AI at TribeAI.

Built a $60K local Mac Studio cluster running Kimi K3 and benchmarked it against cloud AI agents on coding tasks.

Core contributor to Voxtral TTS, a multilingual text-to-speech model combining auto-regressive and flow-matching architectures for voice cloning.

Disclosed that Ukraine tested fully autonomous AI-controlled Terminator drones that killed Russian soldiers without human oversight in 2024.

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1 chip design for efficient transformer inference.

Alexandre Passos

Engineer

Suggested perspective on machine learning theory in comments section

Alexey Kozy

Engineer

Principal Engineer at SpaceXAI

Co-author of blog post introducing Cursor's Debug Mode for coding agents.

Roscosmos cosmonaut who returned with Kim on his first spaceflight.

Explained in GitHub's disclosure blog how CVE-2026-3854 vulnerability worked through improper sanitization of user-supplied git push options.

Alfred Xing

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security work.

Quoted discussing Nvidia's DSX reference design for AI factories achieving zero water consumption through liquid cooling.

First engineering hire at Minerva Humanoids robotics company.

Co-authored guide on the anatomy of effective commerce agents, covering architecture and best practices for Claude-powered shopping agents.

Co-author of the article announcing EmbeddingGemma

Relatively new Anthropic engineer who built a working prototype of Claude Code CLI graphical interface over one weekend.

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

Recent PhD graduate sharing insights about the AI industry job search process and interview preparation.

Stripe engineer quoted on equipping AI agents with same developer tooling as human engineers.

Reported survey findings that 54% of respondents saw AI agents make mistakes in past 90 days, rising to 70% at organizations with 21+ agents.

Alok Bishoyi

Engineer

AI Researcher at Evo

Ported Evo's autoresearch loop to use Anthropic's dynamic workflows in Claude Code for improved long-horizon task execution.

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

Alpay Ariyak

Engineer

Research Engineer at Together AI

Co-led project with experiment design, generated trajectories for training, evaluated DeepSWE, and managed infrastructure.

Co-authored announcement of Gemini's macOS app with new natural language voice capabilities.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

NVIDIA engineer on MARS MLOps team helping research teams build scalable AI training and inference systems.

Authored announcement of Chrome's enhanced autofill powered by Gemini with Personal Intelligence.

Ameet Talwalkar

Engineer

leads Datadog's AI Research Lab at Datadog

Co-author contributing to Datadog's Toto 2.0 time series forecasting foundation model development.

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for reducing model synchronization payload in async RL training.

Co-authored announcement of Open Knowledge Format specification.

Hired by Anthropic to lead custom silicon development; previously founded Google's custom-chip program and led TPU business.

Co-authored article on Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) developed by Google.

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

Wrote a blog post about NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0 and its capabilities for multi-node inference at production scale.

Amritansh Raghav discussed how Claude Managed Agents accelerated development of Asana AI Teammates.

Teaches a course on agentic knowledge graph construction using Google's Agent Development Kit.

Co-authored article about running Gemini 4 Argon unattended on Google codebase optimization.

Andrew Hsu

Engineer

Cofounder & CTO at Speak

Described the shift to coding agents as 'the biggest, most fundamental change in software development since the beginning' and noted his team uses Claude Code to ship features in weeks instead of months.

AI rater contractor laid off by Google's outsourcing partner GlobalLogic, worked on rating AI outputs and creating prompts for models.

Author arguing that open models now provide minimal downside compared to proprietary models like Claude.

Conducted detailed experiment comparing Claude Code vs Cursor pricing, finding Claude Code delivers ~5x more capacity per dollar.

Andy Riancho authored Vercel's announcement of a $1 million sandbox escape challenge and explained how Vercel Sandbox is built.

Developer who demonstrated npm download inflation vulnerability by using an AWS Lambda function to push his package to nearly 1 million downloads per week.

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

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

ElevenLabs team member in Data Operations who worked on Cue, the forced alignment model.

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

Anoop Kotha

Engineer

Applied Evals at OpenAI

Co-authored GPT-5 prompting guide for OpenAI.

Anshu Chimala, who led software engineering and design teams at Apple for 12 years, shared detailed techniques and demonstrations for using AI models like Claude to create sophisticated product designs by pushing beyond default patterns.

Anthony Hu

Engineer

Researcher and World Modeling Lead at General Intuition

Led GAIA-1 research at Wayve and now leads World Modeling at General Intuition.

USGA leader of the team that developed Rules AI, emphasizing the importance of human expertise and noting that the 25,000 question-answer pairs used are their competitive advantage.

NVIDIA researcher involved in developing Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety.

Anuj Saharan

Engineer

Employee at Meta

Anuj Saharan was an OpenAI employee who joined Meta as part of the broader reshuffle of personnel from OpenAI's infrastructure teams.

Co-authored announcement of NotebookLM's Deep Research feature for automating complex online research.

Provided testimonial about using the advisor tool for structured document extraction with 5x lower cost while matching frontier-model quality.

vLLM engineer assisting with RL training experiments and inference optimization.

Aral De Moor is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on MoE language model architecture and training.

Published 'Jev's Architecture Unmasked' analyzing the architecture of TypeSafe's Jev decision model, which Kev-0.5B reproduces.

Baseten researcher who co-authored article on release of mammoth-1 and elephant-1 decision models.

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Arnaud Autef

Engineer

Distillation Tech Lead at Google DeepMind

Arnaud Autef released Gemini 3 Flash as his first release in the role of distillation TL, describing it as a huge success.

Artsiom Ablavatski

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Core ML

Co-introduced an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model enabling real-time translation with only 2-second delay.

Author of "Introducing Advanced Tool Use on the Claude Developer Platform" in Anthropic

Led development of the Docusign MCP Server and wrote about production-ready MCP patterns including guided MCP Apps, automated evaluations, and continuous security testing.

Arvind Saripalli

Engineer

Cursor

Arvind Saripalli co-authored an article describing cloud agent development environment design.

Co-author of CUGA research on open-source agent frameworks and governance.

Wrote the technical blog post about AI21's use of Kueue for managing a 10,000-GPU fleet on Google Cloud.

Ashwini Verma

Engineer

Meta

Co-author of Meta Engineering article on thin orchestrator pattern for production AI agents.

Atty Eleti

Engineer

Product Developer at OpenAI

Posted about GPT-Live now accepting files and managing persistent project state for contextual workspace functionality.

Austin Henley

Engineer

AI researcher at Microsoft

Former Microsoft employee who conducted interviews on LLM-powered copilot development and LLMOps.

Avinash Sridhar

Engineer

GitHub

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from GitHub

Testimonial praising Claude Platform on AWS for canonical Anthropic API with AWS access layer and day-one access to new model capabilities.

Barine Tee

Engineer

Principal Engineer, Search at Google

Co-authored Google blog post announcing new Google Finance with AI-powered portfolio analysis and Android app.

Baris Akis

Engineer

Engineer overseeing recruitment at xAI

Works with Elon Musk reviewing past interview records to reach out to promising candidates previously declined at xAI.

Created the gemini-superpowers extension for Gemini CLI

Discussed scaling vector search to 100M+ embeddings and building production GenAI agents for partner messaging on Weaviate podcast.

Contributed OpenEnv reinforcement learning environment framework to AAIF.

Ben Gubler

Engineer

Engineer at General Translation

Built helm, a typed TypeScript framework for AI agents with built-in skills and permission systems.

Ben Kraft

Engineer

Software Engineer at Notion

Quoted discussing how self-hosted cloud agents help Notion's team avoid maintaining multiple stacks while running agent workloads securely.

Ben O'Mahony

Engineer

Principal AI Engineer at Thoughtworks

Author of "Building Your Own CLI Coding Agent With Pydantic-AI" in Martin Fowler

Co-authored the TorchTPU architecture blog post.

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Amazon robotics leader speaking on AI in production robots at RoboBusiness conference and participating in Women in Robotics Luncheon.

Co-authored announcement of connected apps in Google Search's AI Mode.

Built a Fable 5 visualization demo that logs network packets and renders them as different types of cars on a highway.

Bill Dally, Nvidia's Chief Scientist, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion with Google's Jeff Dean about hardware innovation, systems scaling, and algorithmic advancement needed for AI in the 2026-2030 era.

Co-authored the TorchTPU blog post on PyTorch integration with TPUs.

Apple designer also leaving to join Meta alongside Alan Dye.

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

Ran Gemini 4 Argon unattended for 11 hours on 205,000-line codebase optimization project.

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

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Brad Abrams

Engineer

Product Manager at Anthropic

Brad Abrams from Anthropic spoke alongside Mario Rodriguez about building on Claude at GitHub scale.