AI Tinkerers - Seattle: Practical Agents Hackathon

Nikita Shamgunov is the founder and CEO of Neon, a serverless Postgres platform launched in 2021. He's developing technology that offers instant provisioning, autoscaling, and data branching to simplify database management for developers. Previously, Nikita co-founded MemSQL, scaling it to $40M ARR. He's an experienced tech entrepreneur and early-stage investor, focusing on deep technology and enterprise software.

Developing Neon, a serverless Postgres platform featuring instant provisioning, autoscaling, and data branching. Technical work includes building pg_embedding, an open-source extension for HNSW-based vector search, and optimizing AI-enabled indexing and distributed data systems.

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

Kyle Corbitt is the co-founder and CEO of OpenPipe, the RL post-training company. OpenPipe has trained thousands of customer models for both enterprises and tech-forward startups. Before founding OpenPipe, Kyle led the Startup School team at Y Combinator, which was responsible for the product and content that YC produces for early-stage companies. Prior to that he worked as an engineer at Google and studied ML at school.

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Andre Landgraf is a Developer Advocate at Neon, with 8 years of experience. He previously worked at Databricks as a Member of Technical Staff / Developer Advocate. Andre studied Information Systems and Computer Science.

Building the All Things Web event site using Remix, TypeScript, and Pocketbase. Maintaining react-datalist-input on npm. Developing AI-agent projects using the Neon serverless Postgres stack and integrating Neon within the Databricks AI ecosystem.

João Moura is the CEO of crewAI, with 20 years of experience. He previously studied at NYU Stern School of Business, FIAP, and General Assembly.

Building crewAI, a framework for orchestrating role-based AI agents. Developing multi-agent systems using Python to automate complex workflows. Focused on agentic process design, live-code templates, and scaling collaborative AI ecosystems for engineering and data science teams.