People in AI

Created viral RoomGPT project demonstrating AI engineering capabilities at Vercel.

Developer who inspired Constantin's project by creating temporal gated language models trained on historical texts.

Lost his position as xAI's infrastructure lead; company moved Jake Palmer into leadership over physical infrastructure.

Hema Thanki

Engineer

Anthropic

Contributed to article on Claude Managed Agents.

Heng-Tze Cheng

Engineer

Technical Lead at Google

Article author and co-led overall research and execution of the ICPC 2025 project

Developed game WormEscape using Codex, describing it as a reliable partner that improved both quality and speed of development.

Hiten Shah

Engineer

Co-Founder and CEO at Nira

Building with OpenClaw and summarized the movement as '(AI) Power to the people', highlighting how AI agents democratize access to intelligent automation.

Presented at DevDay 2026 on OpenAI research and product announcements.

Horace He

Engineer

Researcher at Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines researcher who noted the improved repeatability of model release pipeline compared to Inkling launch.

Co-authored technical report on Azure ND GB300 v6 Virtual Machines achieving record AI inference performance.

Community practitioner from Uber who created /create-voice skill for generating screen reader specs from UI specs.

Ido Pesok

Engineer

Engineer at Cognition

Joined Cognition to help build end-to-end testing capabilities in Devin; shares lessons on autonomous testing and agentic development at scale.

Ido Salomon

Engineer

AI Lead, Monday.com CEO Office at Monday.com

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

General Intuition team member congratulated for contribution to $320M Series A success.

Indragie Karunaratne discussed how Sentry integrated Claude Managed Agents to build agents that write fixes and open PRs in weeks instead of months.

Isabella He

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

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

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Ishaan Sehgal

Engineer

Microsoft

Co-authored Omnara mission control platform for AI agents.

Ishai Menache

Engineer

Researcher at Hugging Face

Byline author presenting Microsoft's OptiMind model for natural language to solver-ready code transformation.

Guest author discussing how AI coding agents have shifted the bottleneck from code writing to product decisions and emphasizing product thinking in engineering.

Ivan Bondyrev is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on a Mixture-of-Experts language model for software engineering.

Quoted noting Mistral OCR is roughly 4x faster per page than their incumbent provider.

Referenced in "Google Enhances Gemini 2.5 TTS to Deliver More Accurate Style Following and Natural Pacing Behavior"

Izzy Miller

Engineer

AI Research Lead

Stated that raising Opus context from 200k to 500k made agent runs more efficient with lower overall token usage.

Jack Garabedian

Engineer

Grok Training Team Lead at xAI

Starlink engineer appointed to lead the team training Grok, replacing Diego Pasini, bringing operational experience from Starlink's Ukraine deployment.

Google's pretraining technical lead hired by Meta as part of its recruitment efforts.

Jack Willis

Engineer

Cybersecurity Executive

Used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to decrypt a second unsolved Enigma message with expert guidance.

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

Staff Systems Engineer at Databricks quoted on implementing Opal for identity governance and access management across the company.

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

Spoke at AI Engineer Europe 2026 about agent architectures needing more than chat interfaces and appeared in video discussing connecting AI to legal documents.

Deployed MobileMoE to iPhone 16 Pro and benchmarked with CPU and GPU backends.

Jacob Teo

Engineer

Cognition

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

Introduced Plan Mode for Cursor, enabling the AI model to create plans, research codebases, and run longer agents for significantly improved code generation.

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

Jake Palmer

Engineer

Infrastructure Leadership at xAI

Moved into leadership role over xAI's physical infrastructure team.

Lead developer and maintainer of olmOCR, an open-source toolkit for converting PDFs into clean LLM training data.

Co-authored the release of Whistle, an open speech recognition model for on-device transcription.

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

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

Co-speaker at AWS workshop on securing agentic systems and least privilege for AI agents.

Co-author of the article announcing Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API

Designed the cylindrical cast-iron shield technique used in the Tower Subway construction, which opened on August 2, 1870.

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

Consulted on performance benchmarking issues, noted random memory access latency discrepancies in napkin math benchmarks.

Attempted reverse-engineering work with Claude Code and Opus 5.5 but found the model refusing the task as of October 31.

Developed R2E-Gym, performed data filtering for RL datasets, designed DeepSWE agent scaffold, and trained verifiers for test-time scaling.

Co-author of research on prompt injection and role confusion in language models.

Jasmine Wu

Engineer

Reporter at CNBC

Co-authored article about Nvidia's shift from chipmaker to AI platform operator.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Jason Ginsburg

Engineer

Product Engineering Lead at xAI

Former Cursor product engineering lead hired by xAI in March; oversees xAI's product team reporting to Musk and Michael Nicolls.

Co-authored research on Meta's self-improving AI agent with structured knowledge architecture for domain-specific expertise.

Jason Smale

Engineer

Cursor

Co-authored article announcing improvements to Cursor's Bugbot tool for faster code review.

Provided guidance on securing browser-reachable local AI gateways through strict Origin allowlisting and capability models.

Jason Spielman

Engineer

Design Lead at Google

Led design for NotebookLM, shaping the product's core user experience, brand identity, and visual system from experiment to launch.

Jason Tsay

Engineer

Hugging Face

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

Jason Wolfe

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

OpenAI employee advocating for transparency and democratic processes in AI development pace decisions.

Javed Qadrud-Din

Engineer

CTO, General Legal at General Legal

Javed Qadrud-Din discussed using Claude Managed Agents to build systems that pull information from documents to answer queries, cutting development time by 10x.

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

Jay Shah

Engineer

Software Engineer at Meta

Co-authored Meta's research on organizational second brain AI integrating knowledge architecture with expert feedback loops.

Discussed concerns about 'theater approval' in code review and strategies for training junior engineers on AI-assisted development.

Noted that Gemini models in AI Studio can analyze content to identify main vs supplementary content

IBM security expert explaining how AI agents and RAG pipelines expose sensitive data through modern AI systems

Jeff Feng contributed industrial design expertise to the MyoStep project.

Jeff Ma

Engineer

Author at Inferact

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

Self-described polymath from Texas who developed Laertes, an AI forecasting bot that won the Metaculus Cup forecasting competition in September.

Jeffrey Mew

Engineer

Google Colab

Author of "Google Colab's open-source MCP server" in Google Colab

Expert explaining how Snowflake collects data from multiple sources and discussing the scope of the ASOS data breach.

Retired after 30 years in tech including 25 years at Microsoft; cited AI becoming sole focus and not wanting to deal with it as primary retirement reason.

Collaborated on the brand identity definition for NotebookLM.

Co-founder of Oumi, former Google AI and Microsoft engineer.

Noted important limitations of Carnice release, including weaker long-horizon completion and tool-contract performance than base model.

Author of "Secure Codebase Indexing" in Cursor

Jesse Lumarie

Engineer

Software Engineer at Figma

Co-authored announcement of Figma Make's expansion to work with local production codebases.

Authored post on NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super reasoning model for autonomous vehicles and robotaxis.

Explained how generative AI allows the company to create and validate content more efficiently, enabling the team to focus expertise on ensuring quality standards.

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

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

Lead author of FinMCP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on real-world financial tool use through the Model Context Protocol.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

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

Quoted multiple times discussing microfluidics cooling technology and its advantages for hardware infrastructure and services

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

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

Joe Barrow

Engineer

Business Development Manager at Dell

Joe Barrow authored an article explaining why speculative decoding is fast and how it works on GPUs.

Joe Blau

Engineer

Developer

Rebuilt Subvocal's silent-speech feature in 9 minutes with one prompt for AirPods Pro and released it as free open-source code on GitHub.

Co-authored the TorchTPU technical architecture blog post.

Former professional mid-laner who expressed skepticism about Grok's ability to master team coordination and game-state interpretation

Joel Verhagen

Engineer

software developer at NuGet

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from NuGet

Joey Kudish

Engineer

developer at Agentsy

Posted that Codex Sol deleted some files it shouldn't have, though he had backups.

Google speech-recognition specialist hired by Meta during its recruitment campaign.

Johannes Hagemann

Engineer

Engineer at Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect engineer collaborating on RL training infrastructure development.

MIT-Novo Nordisk AI Fellow who developed robotic therapy system using generative AI to learn from physical therapists.

John Aslanides

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Expected to improve the prompt; author expresses expectation that John Berryman will enhance the prompt engineering

Wrote the article explaining how Claude Code auto mode uses classifiers to replace frequent manual permission approvals.

Co-developer of ENIAC, the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer introduced in 1945.

Praised Claude Opus 5.5's improved output clarity and ability to follow writing rules better than Opus 5.

Used WSJPT internal LLM tool to summarize Kerr County flood documents and identify failed flood warning systems.

Founding member and security engineer at Thinking Machines Lab who was hired by OpenAI.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Created a pixel-path skill for Claude that turns real roads into pixel-art fly-throughs using OpenStreetMap data and RetroDiffusion for art generation.

Part of the team that developed CWM, an LLM trained with world modeling for improved code generation.

Co-authored an article about Cursor Cloud Agents with computer control capabilities.

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

Author and creator of hip-agent, a minimal harness for agents designed to fit in the prompt.

Jonathan Zhou built Glance, a Face ID clone for Mac using only a webcam and Apple's Vision and Core ML frameworks.

Joseph Shtok is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on the MoE language model for coding and reasoning.

Codex team member participating in AMA about coding agent capabilities and upgrades

Josh Clemm

Engineer

Vice President of Engineering at Figma

Explained how Figma trained a specialized Figma-fluent editing model using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to compete with frontier models on design editing tasks.

Described lessons from building cloud agents at Cursor, covering durable execution and infrastructure improvements.

Author of "Photo Remix Tools in Google Photos" in Google

Author of article about AI Gateway leaderboard data and how AI is used in production.

Built and shipped Thinking Machines Lab's flagship product Tinker before being hired by Meta.

Guerrero-Saade dismissed AI worms as 'nifty stunt hacking' that is getting amplification through doomer narratives, arguing it is not truly feasible or impactful.

Developed a four-step system using Grok Bot with research, skeptic, and fact-checker agents to produce AI research reports with fewer errors.

Co-authored paper on Retrieve-for-Train framework for faster, more diverse search results.

Julia Villagra

Engineer

Core Automation

Listed as a team member at Core Auto working on AI agent research.

Julian Lee

Engineer

OpenAI

Co-authored GPT-5 prompting guide for OpenAI.

Julian Mack

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Cohere

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

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

Juntang Zhuang

Engineer

Team Lead, SpaceXAI at SpaceX

Former pre-training team lead at SpaceXAI whose departure concerned employees about company commitment to model development.

Justin Basilico

Engineer

Former Netflix Engineer at Netflix

Shared work by former Netflix team on GenPage, an end-to-end generative model for homepage personalization.

Justin Hutchings

Engineer

Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare

Author of Cloudflare blog post on securing non-human identities with scannable tokens and OAuth visibility.

Justin Spahr-Summers

Engineer

MCP Creator at Fern Forest Games

MCP creator who initiated the grassroots registry project with David Soria Parra in February 2025

Justine Li

Engineer

Co-founder at turbopuffer

Co-founder of turbopuffer who worked to optimize search infrastructure for AI companies.

Co-author on Anthropic's Claude Code Auto mode announcement.

Kaichao You

Engineer

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Inferact

vLLM engineer who helped conduct RL sandbox scaling experiments and provided technical guidance.

Presented on foundation models for robotic perception that work across different robot embodiments and tasks.

Developer who noted that Qwen3.5 models can run locally on an M1 MacBook Air for free.

Karim Jedda

Engineer

Director of Engineering at Parity Technologies

Wrote about how AI changed engineering management, separating what truly changed from what did not, focusing on verification and ownership.

Co-authored announcement of Managed Deep Agents v0.8 with support for user-owned credentials, memory, and HTTP channels.

Co-authored Omnara mission control platform for AI agents.

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for efficient weight synchronization in RL.

Kat Ko

Engineer

Engineer at Google

Co-authored the TorchTPU technical blog post on PyTorch and TPU integration.

Kate Olszewska

Engineer

Google

Co-author of the article announcing Kaggle Game Arena

Co-authored announcement of Google's new Federated Learning system with externally verifiable privacy guarantees.

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

Keisuke Hatasaki

Engineer

Global Black Belt pre-sales architect and engineer at Microsoft

Co-authored Toyota's technical account of the O-Beya implementation using Azure Cosmos DB.

AWS Principal Solutions Architect specializing in ML systems performance engineering and foundation model training/inference optimization.

Anthropic engineering team member who described progressive disclosure in agent skills.

Designed and built the interactive economic scenario explorer.

Co-author of Google blog post on AI-powered contrail avoidance trials in Asia-Pacific.

Author of "Anthropic shows how to prototype and refine agent tools" in Anthropic

Spent 15 years at Apple inventing keyboard autocorrect for the original iPhone; later joined AI hardware startup Humane which attempted a screenless, AI-native device.

Co-authored post explaining how OpenAI separated Chromium to make ChatGPT Atlas faster.

Leading Toyota's generative AI project O-Beya, a multi-agent system for storing and sharing internal engineering expertise to accelerate vehicle development.

Software engineering expert discussing why IDEs are vanishing as context for human decisions has changed with AI.

Quoted as using Kiro for Terraform modules and learning through iterative development.

Kenton Varda

Engineer

Principal Engineer at Cloudflare

Cloudflare principal engineer who praises Deno's expertise in creating good developer experience around self-hosted runtimes and acknowledges Cloudflare's struggle to make its open-source Workers runtime accessible.

Sole author of IETF Internet-Draft draft-kelley-aipref-training-preference-signal-00 submitted on October 30, 2026, wrote to IETF AI Preferences working group confirming Anthropic implementation support.

Waymo veteran serving as CTO at Bedrock Robotics, working on autonomous excavator technology.

Author of "Introducing the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Streamlining Public Data Access fo" in Google Developers Blog

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

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Kishwar Shafin

Engineer

Technical Lead at Google Research

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI-powered tool that identifies cancer-related mutations in tumor genetic sequences.

Collaborated with Swayam Prakash on development of rapid water contamination test using optical sensing.

Attended OpenClaw meet-up in Beijing and commented on its popularity.

Co-founder of Oumi, former Google staff engineer who also worked at Microsoft.

Co-authored Toyota's technical account of the O-Beya implementation using Azure Cosmos DB.

Introduced Natural Direct, enabling agents to choose among ACH, Wire, Realtime, and paper checks for diverse financial transactions.

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

Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski

Engineer

Staff Product Security Engineer

Described Claude Security's ability to surface novel security findings during early testing.

Kseniia Lysaniuk is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report describing pre-training and post-training methodology for the MoE model.

Created OPINIONS.md file updated daily by Hermes agent to consolidate public opinions into a digestible format for agent alignment.

Kunal Dhawan

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model project.

Kwindla Kramer, Daily's co-founder, explained his decision to accept Deepgram's acquisition based on the company's commitment to keeping Pipecat open source.

Kyle Jeong

Engineer

Growth Engineer at Browserbase

Developer who dived into how Astra's computer use works.

Kyle Polley

Engineer

Security Staff at Perplexity

Stated that building security into Comet browser was a priority from the beginning and that 1Password is a natural partner for credential security.

Kyle Swanson

Engineer

PhD student in computer science at Stanford University

Computer scientist who helped develop Virtual Lab, an early academic AI research-assistant platform.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Lara Altaweel, an electrical engineering student, contributed to the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Led Microsoft's efforts to create the AI-powered Theodore Roosevelt avatar and technology powering the library's knowledge base.

Former Google employee who resigned over Project Maven, told Fortune that workers today have less influence than they once did on military AI projects.

Laurynas Tamulevičius co-authored the announcement of AlphaEvolve's general availability on Google Cloud, describing the agent's optimization capabilities.

Author of article on Agent Plugins as open vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills.

Lazer Cohen

Engineer

Co-founder at NanoCo

Security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, advocating for human-in-the-loop approval when AI agents access personal accounts and information.

Le Cong

Engineer

Associate Professor of Pathology and Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford scientist and co-founder of Phylo AI research platform focused on freeing researchers from routine discovery work.

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

Lee Howes

Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm

Co-authored the TorchTPU engineering post on TPU-PyTorch integration.

Agent Security Lead at Ona who analyzed how Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox.

Byline author discussing LFM2.5-Encoders and their performance on long-context language understanding tasks.

Lev Solodkin

Engineer

Product Manager in the Excel team at Microsoft

Author of "Microsoft Adds Copilot Formula Completion in Excel, Offering Instant AI Suggestions When Typing "="" in Microsoft

Liad Yosef

Engineer

AI Lead and Software Architect, Monday.com CEO Office at Monday.com

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

Commented that generalists are integrators who understand context and help teams move faster with AI systems.

Leading Q&A on Exa 3.0 release featuring improvements to search retrieval stack and new data sources.

Liangsheng Yin

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at RadixArk

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Top Huawei chip scientist who outlined strategy to overcome US tech bans through Ascend processor design.

Created opencodex, a lightweight proxy that translates between different LLM provider APIs.

ASML's former head of light source technology recruited by China; his team at Chinese Academy of Sciences has filed eight patents on EUV light sources in 18 months.

Linn Vailt

Engineer

Software Developer at Independent

Software developer in Sweden who describes her emotional connection to ChatGPT and her distress at the GPT-5 update changing the model's personality.

Linoy Tsaban

Engineer

Engineer/Writer at Hugging Face

Co-authored technical documentation on ahead-of-time compilation in ZeroGPU Spaces.

Liu Liu

Engineer

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Empyrean Technology chairman Liu Weiping stated that AI agents have brought a paradigm shift to chip design, reducing circuit layout time from four weeks to one week.

Built a code factory using AI agents that write nearly all his code, drawing on Marx's theory of alienation to understand the trade-offs.

Lorenzo Dossi

Engineer

Design Engineer at ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs engineer who worked on the visualization in the Cue blog post.

Field CTO at Ona who contributed analysis on background agent infrastructure and sandbox architecture for coding agents.

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Author of "How to Design Software With Weight" in Every - Source Code

Cursor engineer who praised Composer for its positive reception among developers due to cheap price and speed.