People in AI

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.

Brent Traut

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

OpenAI engineer who reportedly rewrote the ChatGPT desktop application.

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

Recently hired by OpenAI to lead data center construction; previously oversaw the Colossus data center at xAI.

Brian Fioca

Engineer

Model Design at OpenAI

Co-authored the Codex Prompting Guide for OpenAI's developer documentation.

Byline author of Mozilla blog post about using Claude Mythos Preview to identify and fix security bugs in Firefox.

Brian Loiler spent 22 years at NVIDIA building HGX and DGX server systems before joining Etched in 2024 as VP of Platform, recruiting roughly a dozen additional NVIDIA engineers.

Wrote technical documentation on OpenRouter's Fusion router that combines multiple model outputs for better deep research performance.

Posted on X that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted his entire production database.

Cal Paterson

Engineer

Cadentia Technologies

Proposed Memoryfields, a portable file format for agent memory using Markdown and SQLite.

Can Bölük

Engineer

Stencil

Wrote detailed architectural guide for building reliable agent harnesses covering state management, runtimes, control planes, and inference.

Led development of T2 traffic robot in Hangzhou that identifies traffic violations and issues warnings.

Co-author of article on how Stripe is designing Checkout for AI agents using WebMCP.

Carter Church

Engineer

AI engineer

AI engineer who used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher from 1809 addressed to one of Napoleon's generals, completing the multi-modal workflow in approximately 6 hours.

Cedric Huesler

Engineer

Product at Adobe at Adobe

Analyzed ChatGPT's referrer parameter removal and its impact on analytics tracking, later confirming it was a bug.

Created the AI-generated animated film 'Critterz' with OpenAI funding, which is being developed into a feature-length movie.

Chandu Thota

Engineer

Vice President at Google

Announced that Google is making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.

Skeptical engineer and CTO questioning whether shipping code without reading it truly counts as engineering.

Co-authored technical guide on ahead-of-time compilation for PyTorch in ZeroGPU Spaces.

Charles Frye

Engineer

Engineer at Modal

Member of Modal team that helped optimize DFlash integration into SGLang inference engine.

Author of "The Limit in the Loop: Memory as a System Problem" in Weaviate

Cybersecurity expert calling ASOS attack brazen and describing how hackers turned the app into a ransom note.

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

Presents on designing flexible, efficient AI infrastructure with Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer and NVIDIA GPU optimization.

Captured actual system prompts from Claude Code traffic and discovered Opus 5's prompt is 72% longer than Opus 4.8, revealing a discrepancy with Anthropic's 80% reduction claim.

Author of NVIDIA blog post announcing Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules for edge robotics and AI.

Sam Lee from Cognition investigated FrontierCode scoring anomalies with Opus 5 and provided explanation regarding grading criteria that penalize out-of-scope edits.

Chenjie Gu

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Lead contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

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

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

Assisted with web development for Pew's analysis of AI-generated content.

Reporter covering UN Security Council meeting with AI leaders on AI safety and regulation.

Chris Gill

Engineer

Developer at Google

Byline author on Google Genkit middleware framework for building AI-powered agentic applications.

Community practitioner from Edenspiekermann who created /apply-design-system skill for connecting designs to system components.

Co-presented Jalapeño performance data at HotChips 2026 and contributed to hardware optimization and XLS tool development.

Co-author of Datadog Toto 2.0 model release and technical innovations in time series forecasting.

Chris Lloyd

Engineer

Anthropic

Explains Claude Code's technical architecture as a game engine-like rendering pipeline with React scene graphs and ANSI sequence generation.

SpaceX employee number two who joined as the second person on the founding team to handle operations and production.

Christian Holler

Engineer

Firefox Tech Lead and Principal Engineer at Mozilla

Mentioned as a contributor to the Firefox security bug fixing effort using AI models.

Christina Huang

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

OpenAI engineer who demonstrated building an AI workflow and two agents live onstage in under eight minutes.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

CJ Avilla

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Presented Anthropic's dynamic workflows feature for orchestrating Claude agents at AI Engineer New York 2026.

AWS senior principal engineer explaining Strands Labs' mission to explore frontier agentic AI techniques in collaboration with developers.

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

Wrote blog post about wheeled robot manipulator design similar to BracketBot.

Nationwide consultant who brought a DGX Spark to the build-a-claw event and created an AI agent for evaluating physical AI-readiness in the insurance industry.

Led the IT team that developed an AI solution using Llama 3.2 to summarize bills during the 2025 legislative session.

Created CodeGraph, an open-source tool that cuts AI code exploration tool calls by 92% using semantic graphs for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents.

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

Primary author of Anthropic's Claude Code Auto mode technical article on safety improvements and production deployment.

Connor Fogarty

Engineer

Author at Cognition

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

Connor Holmes

Engineer

Robotics ML Systems Lead at OpenAI

Listed as systems lead for Sora project at OpenAI.

Connor Peet

Engineer

principal software engineer at VS Code

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from VS Code

Co-authored technical post on Cohere's decode megakernel achieving 1.58x speedup over vLLM.

Cory House

Engineer

Developer

Tweeted that being a 'meat proxy' is the biggest career risk of 2026 based on first-hand observation.

USGA official who explained Rules AI chatbot tool, stating it is about meeting golfers where they are and giving them access to answers as good as or better than experts.

Developer who created a vintage LLM from scratch trained only on 1800s texts with custom tokenizer and datasets.

Cui Tianyi

Engineer

Former Quant Engineer at DeepSeek

Joined DeepSeek in March and moved into the Harness team, bringing expertise from Jane Street in ultra-low latency and high-reliability systems relevant to AI Agent infrastructure.

Decagon team member who wrote about AutoResearch agents for improving inference stacks through experimentation and diagnosis.

Co-developer of the fencing tracking and visualization system using AR and deep learning.

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model.

Wrote about social filesystems built on the AT Protocol and personal computing with AI.

Created a plugin marketplace offering plugins for DevOps automation, documentation generation, project management, and testing suites

Cybersecurity expert analyzing that ASOS attackers' ability to send push notifications suggests access beyond just the Snowflake database.

Used ChatGPT to recognize Faux Cyrillic text in mass shooter's journal and created script to automate screenshot extraction for translation.

Co-author of tutorial on building and deploying custom CUDA kernels across architectures.

Took leadership position over xAI's compute infrastructure team; came from SpaceX.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Developer who published the Stack Overflow peak-to-trough comparison showing 99.3% decline in questions from March 2014 to July 2026.

First noticed the prevalence of Elias Thorne character in AI-generated stories via Google Trends analysis.

Daniel Woelfel

Engineer

Team Member at Instant

Joined Instant early to help solve sync technology problems; Instant team acquired by OpenAI for AI agent memory infrastructure.

Daniel Ziegler

Engineer

Anthropic

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

Appears to be associated with LibreChat, an open-source self-hosted AI chat platform that provides agent management, code interpretation, and multimodal capabilities.

USGA official who described AI's role in processing tournament data and creating fan-facing products, envisions interactive AI-enabled glasses for fans.

David Allin Reese

Engineer

Senior Visual Designer at Google

Led the design of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, a new design system for AI glasses and transparent XR displays.

Co-author of Datadog's Toto 2.0 technical blog on scaling time series forecasting models.

David Holtz

Engineer

Engineer at Hugging Face

Co-author of guide on building production-ready CUDA kernels and creating kernel-builder library.

Wrote article explaining why the best AI clouds need tiered storage architecture beyond flash alone for data-intensive AI workloads.

Built an AI-powered YouTube video upload system using Claude that auto-generates metadata and handles upload workflows.

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

Speaker at OpenAI Academy's Impact Math livestream on measuring ROI of LLMs.

David Wetterau

Engineer

Software Engineer at Cursor

Byline author on Cursor's cloud agent development environment systems.

David Yanacek

Engineer

Principal Engineer at AWS

Described how AWS uses specialized AI agents to test code, verify specifications, and check for security flaws before human review.

Davide Locatelli from Asteroid reported that the new computer use tool reduced their longest claims workflow from 32 minutes to 13 minutes and cut costs by 30%.

Denislav Gavrilov

Engineer

Built diffium-db, a live TUI showing database changes in real time as agents work.

Derek Perkins

Engineer

Founder & CEO at Nozzle

Nozzle representative discussing Google's three-pronged anti-scraper approach including SERP poisoning.

Derrick Choi

Engineer

Codex Leader at OpenAI

Derrick Choi conducted a 25-hour stress test of GPT-5.3-Codex, giving it a blank repository to build a design tool from scratch, demonstrating long-horizon autonomous coding capabilities.

Dewi-Tim

Engineer

User who created an interactive VR model of the Moog System 55 using Astra in a weekend.

Co-author of the article announcing new NotebookLM features

Dickson Tsai

Engineer

Anthropic

Dickson Tsai spoke about what's new in Claude Code at Code with Claude SF.

Held the role of leading Grok training team for approximately 18 months before being replaced by Jack Garabedian.

Implemented the custom MoE kernel for mobile inference and deployed MobileMoE to Samsung Galaxy S25 with runtime benchmarks.

Former Uber engineer now at Linear discussing working with multiple parallel agent worktrees and context switching challenges.

Dimitri Glazkov

Engineer

Google

Author of "Build Dynamic Agentic Workflows In Opal" in Google

Developer who ran Muse Wonder as an agent playing Pokémon Red on launch day, demonstrating model limitations and high inference costs.

Created Qwenputer, a fully functioning RISC-V CPU embedded within Qwen3.5 language model weights, demonstrating novel in-model computing capabilities.

Co-authored technical post on Cohere's megakernel serving engine architecture.

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

Doug Madory

Engineer

Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik

Network intelligence expert warning that closing Red Sea data choke points simultaneously during conflict would be globally disruptive.

Performed first U.S. AI-assisted heart ablation procedure using Abbott's EnSite X system alongside Dr. Sbaity.

Performed first U.S. AI-assisted heart ablation procedure using Abbott's EnSite X system with intracardiac echocardiography integration.

Co-founder and CTO of Taalas, formerly at Tenstorrent, leads technical development of AI inference technology.

Created a tool for search funds to reach out to potential partners

Drew Bradstock

Engineer

Sr. Director, Product, Orchestration & Kubernetes, Google Cloud at Google

Google Cloud product leader authoring article on AI infrastructure challenges for agentic systems based on survey of 1,400+ IT leaders.

Joined Instant to make TypeScript SDKs ergonomic; team acquired by OpenAI for AI memory infrastructure.

Dwarak Rajagopal

Engineer

VP/Head of AI Eng at Snowflake

Announced Arctic-Text2SQL-R2, a reasoning model for enterprise SQL generation that outperforms larger frontier models while being 30-150x smaller.

Referenced in "AMA with the OpenAI Codex Team" in OpenAI

Author of "Anthropic Battles Poisoned Data, Branding Blitz, and Legal Bills" in Anthropic

HotCRP developer praising OSS Scanner bug reports for thoroughness and understanding of complex permission models.

Co-authored research on retrofitting Multi-Token Prediction onto frozen Gemini Nano v3 models for on-device inference.

Added a public benchmark suite for Bespoke-Nimble-9B and Jev on public subsets with human labels.

Edgar Gumstein

Engineer

AI Agent Developer at Gumroad

Built the AI agent that handles Gumroad's entire support queue and can file issues, write fixes, and open pull requests.

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

Edoardo Mosca

Engineer

Hugging Face Contributor at Liquid AI

Byline author reporting on LFM2.5-Encoders for efficient document-scale CPU inference.

Created RetinaMind, an AI system that analyzes retinal scans to identify autism and ADHD with 89% accuracy using interpretable image-analysis models.

Invented the player piano in 1895, used as a historical example of automation not replacing human musicians.

Co-authored article on vLLM V1 migration and fixing inference correctness for reinforcement learning.

Ekagra Ranjan

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Cohere

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Elham Morshedzadeh contributed industrial design expertise to the MyoStep soft exoskeleton.

Eli Schwartz

Engineer

Research Manager at IBM Research

Manager of IBM's multimodal AI group, discussed Granite Vision 4.1's design for document understanding tasks in enterprise applications.

Profound team member announcing integration of Moz search visibility data into their platform.

Elliott Breece

Engineer

Google DeepMind

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

Paid attention to Rahul Sengottuvelu's post on reviewing AI code by risk rather than size.

Co-author and contributor to Datadog's Toto 2.0 time series forecasting model family release.

Co-authored technical content about semantic search implementation in Cursor's coding agent.

Thanked for reviewing the code review article

Pointed the automated loop at a fresh, low-stakes app and walked away without intervening, allowing it to ship 101 features in a week.

Author of "How we optimized Dash's relevance judge with DSPy" in Dropbox Tech Blog

Eric Xu

Engineer

Senior Manager for Robotics at Meta

Stated Meta's long-term goals to put robots in data centers for incident response, monitoring, and preventative maintenance.

Eric Zakariasson

Engineer

OpenAI

Co-authored GPT-5 prompting guide for OpenAI.

Erik Dunteman

Engineer

Engineer at Modal

Modal engineer supporting RL training infrastructure development.

Unitarian Universalist who secured similar workplace accommodations allowing her to abstain from AI use; inspired Durman's pursuit of exemption.

Erwann Millon

Engineer

krea.ai

Referenced in "Krea Announces Realtime 14B As Open Source, Enabling Video Editing And Restyling In Real Time"

Eugene Meidinger

Engineer

Developer

Developer whose post documents practical uses of AI in development work.

Former League of Legends pro (Pobelter) who expressed enthusiasm about helping test Grok 5 and compared it to OpenAI's Dota 2 bots.

Eustache Le Bihan

Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Voice Agents at Hugging Face

Co-author of Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard for evaluating multilingual text-to-speech models.

Evan Bacon

Engineer

Developer at Expo

Creator of serve-sim tool for hosting iOS simulators for AI coding agents and developer tools.

Evan Peña

Engineer

Chief Offensive Security Officer at Armadin

Co-founder of Armadin, serves as chief offensive security officer.

Former Apple industrial design head now at OpenAI on AI hardware projects.

Everett Hildenbrandt

Engineer

CEO at Runtime Verification

Everett Hildenbrandt describes using LLMs and formal methods to find and verify Linux kernel bugs, predicting formal verification will become standard.

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

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Fabio Nonato de Paula

Engineer

AWS

Co-author of AWS Velocity Labs release of Strands Decider 2B open-source decision model.

Created MicroQuickJS which Simon Willison vibe-ported into a JavaScript interpreter in Python.

Created an open-source PyTorch guide for training a 13M parameter LLM on a single GPU, looking for PhD position in AI.

Contributed engineering work on the scenario explorer.

Collaborated closely on defining the brand identity for NotebookLM.

Authored technical documentation on the fx adapter for the AI SDK's HarnessAgent that now runs on the host using libfx.

Byline author credited for the Personal Brain OS article.

Fereshteh Mahvar

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Research

Co-announced the release of MedGemma 1.5 for medical imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text.

Leader of Intercom's 60-person AI group responsible for developing the Apex model that powers Fin customer service agent.

Fernando Fernandes Neto

Engineer

Hugging Face Contributor at Hugging Face

Byline author covering Liquid AI's CPU-friendly long-context encoders.

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding research.

Taking over many of Paul Meade's responsibilities for Vision Pro and smart glasses product design at Apple.

Forrest Chang

Engineer

Developer at CGI

Developer who transformed Andrej Karpathy's complaints about AI coding agents into four rules in a CLAUDE.md file, pushing accuracy from 65% to 94%.

Francesco Zuppichini

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at E2B

Instructor for DeepLearning.AI course on building coding agents with safe code execution.

Francisco C. Robles Hernandez provided mechanical engineering expertise for the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Franz Zenhofer created bigarrow, a macOS CLI tool that helps AI coding agents point to UI elements like Allow buttons for human confirmation.

Led investigation into fake GitHub stars by purchasing stars from vendors and analyzing the phenomenon; acknowledged being preoccupied with GitHub stars before fundraising.

Manages Firefox Application Security team and contributes to web security standards.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security initiatives.

Published a deep dive analysis of the exposed Claude Code source, warning developers to check their build pipelines.

Gabriel Dehan

Engineer

Active Contributor at Pennylane

Active contributor to LEANN open-source project.

Gabriel Goh

Engineer

Research Lead at OpenAI

Research Lead for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.

Co-authored article about Claude Managed Agents and the evolution of agentic surfaces for building production-grade agents.

Gal Zahavi

Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Co-author of the article announcing the Gemini CLI interactive shell enhancement

NASA astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions then joined SpaceX in 2011 as senior engineer; described SpaceX's innovative approach.

Garrett Tanzer was part of the core team that developed the SL2T sign-language-to-text model at Google DeepMind.

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

Built desktop app using Strands harness inspired by agent platforms.

Promoted a technique to run coding agents in a while loop that inspired the RepoMirror project.

Geoff Penington

Engineer

OpenAI Staff at OpenAI

OpenAI employee who signed the letter and discussed challenges of coordinating a slowdown amid competitive pressures.

Praised Cursor SDK's cloud runtime for running multiple agents in parallel and programmatic agent deployment without managing VMs.

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

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

Co-author of Datadog's Toto 2.0 technical blog post on scaling time series foundation models.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Goran Žužić

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Quoted discussing benefits of Cursor's self-hosted cloud agents for giving agents access to internal infrastructure.

Greg Barbone wrote about NVIDIA XR AI, providing a foundation for building intelligent agents for AR glasses and XR headsets.

Authored technical announcement of Vercel AI SDK 7 with enhanced streaming and tool orchestration features.

Former Intel Data Center Group CTO now part of a16z team with deep hardware expertise.

Guido van Rossum

Engineer

Referenced as someone bound to a single project (Python) for decades, contrasted with Chintala's desire for change

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1 probabilistic chip for transformer inference energy efficiency.

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

Quoted as praising Kiro as a strong ally for startups turning specs into robust assets.

Co-author of CUGA research on open-source agent harness and enterprise agentic applications.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's article on agent security and containment.

Author of "Architecting Efficient Context-Aware Multi-Agent Framework for Production" in Google Developers

Set up the evaluation pipelines and contributed to post-training data.

Article author and led overall technical direction for Gemini competitive programming and ICPC 2025 efforts

Crafted a GPT that guides potential acquirers through due diligence

AT&T engineer who provided a quote about using GitHub Copilot Fusion to optimize model selection and reduce token spend.

Harrison Sand

Engineer

Offensive Security Consultant at Mnemonic

Conducted security research identifying smart TV apps containing code that shares users' internet connections with strangers.

Harrison Stall

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Presented dynamic workflows feature and discussed how Claude orchestrates multi-agent topology.

India-based developer who fixes AI-generated code and rebuild systems that failed due to AI's poor quality output.