AI Tinkerers: Humans-in-the-Loop Hackathon

Founder, AI Tinkerers. Prior: Crowd Cow (>$50M ARR), MediaPiston (acq. Upwork), Snapvine (acq. Whitepages). Former co-founder/President, Madrona Venture Labs. UW CSE, MIT Sloan. Building the global AI Tinkerers community and platform.

Early-stage AI builders, agentic dev tools, applied LLM products, and technical founding teams. Open to intros for seed-stage teams and exceptional builders.

Building AI Tinkerers: events + platform (talks, hackathons, matchmaking, job board). Also advising a small set of seed-stage teams on hiring, distribution, and fundraising.

Co-Founder & CEO of CopilotKit🪁 - open-source infra for building fully customized AI Copilots into any product (thousands of weekly installs, 8k+ GitHub stars). Leading & building dev infra my entire career (CopilotKit, Meta, Doximity). Past life: 2 physics degrees @UPenn.

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Atai Barkai is currently leading the development of CopilotKit, an open-source infrastructure designed for integrating fully customized AI copilots into various products. The project has gained significant traction, with thousands of weekly installs and over 8,000 stars on GitHub. His work involves building developer infrastructure and enhancing AI solutions, leveraging his expertise in software development and media SDKs. Specific technologies and frameworks used in these projects have not been

Founder of CopilotKit. Open-source infrastructure for in-app AI agents.

Looking to hire developers with AI experience & experienced DevRels. Interested in GenAI, agents & design patterns that extract maximum utility from LLMs.

Full time on CopilotKit

Adam Burgh is a seasoned tech industry leader with a proven track record of scaling and leading global companies and startups. Currently serving as the Founder and CEO of We Build With AI, Adam's expertise lies in innovation and growth within the tech sector. With a background in product management, strategy, analytics and marketing, Adam's technical acumen is complemented by his strong leadership skills. He is currently open to advisory or fractional executive roles, or seeking potential technical co-founders interested in using AI to create a knowledge discovery and sharing platform for employees to securely access their company’s proprietary documents and information.

Leadership, scaling startups, product innovation and prioritization, growth marketing and strategy.

Education platform to help everyone build with AI, regardless of formal technical training. Expert network of external and internal human experts as well as expert agents. Knowledge discovery and sharing platform for employees to securely access their company’s proprietary documents and information.

Denzil Eden is the Founder & CEO of Smarty (Smarty.ai), located in Brooklyn, New York. He holds degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School and has 12 years of experience.

Building Smarty.ai, an AI operations agency using agents and human-in-the-loop teams to automate business workflows. Developing production AI systems, real-time collaboration tools, and ML pipelines to resolve operational bottlenecks through automated, supervised workflows.

Jen Haller is the Chief Of Staff at Ascend, a pre-seed investor in AI startups. Jen has helped to build AI Tinkerers in Seattle into the leading technology group for active builders. She has an extensive background supporting early-stage tech companies, building operations and working closely with founding teams.

I can help with advice/connections for founders building early-stage tech teams and raising their first round. I can also help job seekers find roles within Ascend's portfolio companies (and beyond)

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I hold a dual degree in Molecular Bio and Entrepreneurship from UW, with experience running a high-end dog treat company. I've worked in CoMotion Labs and Techstars, where I became the youngest Program Manager, running 6 programs and working with 80+ companies. I founded YoungTech, a startup community organization, and currently manage VC and Accelerator Partnerships at Deel.

Interested in new tech trends, community builders, and startup founders

Building YoungTech

I help run AI Tinkerers, a global network of people actually building with AI. Before this I led VC & accelerator partnerships at Deel, ran accelerator programs at Techstars, and co-founded YoungTech. These days I’m mostly obsessed with how we scale real-world builder communities

I’m especially interested in the next wave of agentic systems, context engineering, and AI-native product design — basically anything that helps models reason, remember, or act better in the real world. Always looking to connect with builders experimenting at the infrastructure layer (RAG, memory, orchestration, evals) and founders rethinking user interfaces for AI-first workflows. Also open to meeting developers, designers, and DevRel folks who want to collaborate.

Working on vibe coding landing pages currently -- and also interested in building zapier workflows to connect my data and make it useable

lead developer of Open Interpreter, Seattle AI Tinkerers MC.

computers!

https://openinterpreter.com/

Nistha Mitra is an Applied Scientist at Oracle, with a background in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. She also has experience at Neuramill and is currently the Founder of Stealth, seeking mentors and advisors.

Building Neuramill.co and developing a Medical Llama Chatbot by fine-tuning Llama-2-7b using TRL, SFTTrainer, LoRA, and 4-bit quantization. Leading proprietary multi-modal AI model development and cloud-based ML pipelines on Oracle Cloud Services.

Canadian from Boston. Illustrator turned designer turned animator turned producer turned entrepreneur turned investor turned event organizer. Find me in the sauna, on my bike, having dinner with my girlfriend.

AI innovation, event organization, graphic design, community building, startup collaboration, digital media production, strategic advisory, investment opportunities, entrepreneurship

I'm currently building AI Tinkerers in NYC, painting my kitchen cabinets

Aaron Villalpando is a seasoned entrepreneur and software development expert with over 8 years of experience, primarily at Amazon. As the founder of Boundary (YC W23), he leverages his skills in system architecture, AWS, Android development, and project management to create innovative solutions. Holding a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin, Aaron is passionate about technology and has worked on notable projects such as Prime Video and Twitch. He is now self-employed, driving BoundaryML as a prominent entrepreneur and founder.

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Working on BAML, a domain specific language to write and test llm functions