AI Tinkerers Hackathon Organizers - AI Tinkerers - Seattle: Practical Agents Hackathon
AI Tinkerers - Seattle
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Joe Heitzeberg RSVP Approved

Founder at AI Tinkerers
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.

Jake Laes RSVP Approved

Executive Director at AI Tinkerers
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

Killian Lucas RSVP Approved

Founder at Open Interpreter
lead developer of Open Interpreter, Seattle AI Tinkerers MC.
computers!