AI Tinkerers - Seattle
April Meetup
Apr
24
Thursday
6PM to 9PM PDT
Main Stage Speakers
Claire Longo
Claire Longo
Head of Customer Engineering at Comet
Monitoring and evaluating non-deterministic AI Agents with practical code.
Ivan Murzak
Ivan Murzak
Senior Unity Developer at Mirrorscape
Bridge between AI and Unity game engine - Unity MCP
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LLMs using tool protocols to accelerate Unity game creation.
Rishi Mullur
Rishi Mullur
Software Engineer at University of Washington
Teaching Claude to Catch 'Em All (or Repeatedly Walk Into Walls): A New take on ClaudePlaysPokémon
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LLM plays Pokémon; learn state extraction and prompt engineering.
Science Fair Presenters
Marnel Ramirez
Marnel Ramirez
Pharmacy Student at University of Washington
Building conversational AI patient simulators for healthcare training.
Seshadri Sridharan
Seshadri Sridharan
Software engineer at Tinkerer, entrepreneur
Bridging pain points to n8n workflows for non-technical users
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Fixing LLM workflow generation using knowledge mining and generative UI.
Nitisha Rathi
Nitisha Rathi
Senior SDE at MongoDB
AI oncall engineer that actually works
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Deploying AI to resolve production software incidents.
Mitchell Kossoris
Mitchell Kossoris
Co-Founder at Deposely, Inc.
Building Real-Time AI Copilots for High-Stakes Conversations
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Technical architecture for real-time, high-stakes AI insights.
John Davidson
John Davidson
Entrepreneur at Cornice Labs
No-code front-ends with AI assisted backend
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Hybrid development: no-code frontends meet custom AI backends.
Kamran Tirdad
Kamran Tirdad
Founder at vinchy.app
Vinchy: AI-Powered Fit Matching and Virtual Try-On for the Real-World Body (Prefer to do Science Fair)
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Applying hybrid AI to solve ambiguous clothing fit problems.
Prashanthi Matam
Prashanthi Matam
Senior MLOPS engineer at Discover financial services
Building context-aware LLM agents that access files and tools.
Matt Cummins
Matt Cummins
Lead AI Engineer at Capsule Video
Tactician: Detailed, specific workplace advice for confusing or political situations
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Organizational behavior AI agents solve workplace political problems.
Ben Steinher
Ben Steinher
active listener at Thought Partners
Experimenting with infinite canvas UI for AI agent tooling.
Jaymin West
Jaymin West
Builder at consulting.jayminwest.com
Building KOTA: A Practical Approach to Distributed Cognition
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Build your own local, self-managing cognitive AI assistant.
Caleb Benningfield
Caleb Benningfield
Field CTO at Amperity
Agents for Data Engineers in the Customer Data Platform Space
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Agents automating Databricks customer data platform implementation.
David Botos
David Botos
Co-Founder at Connect211
DoppelGoner: Building a Vector-Based Entity Clustering System for Federated Data
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Solving entity reconciliation with Rust, embeddings, and graph clustering.