Meet the Seattle AI Tinkerers Organizers .

AI Tinkerers - Seattle Organizers

A tight-knit crew of builders who host local meetups, showcase real-world demos, and grow the AI Tinkerers community in Seattle.

Jake Laes

Jake Laes

Jacob Laes is the Executive Director at AI Tinkerers, a global network of AI builders.

Ben Steinher

Ben Steinher

Ben Steinher, Maintenance Manager at PTLA Real Estate Group, is an active listener and entrepreneur.

Joe Heitzeberg

Joe Heitzeberg

Joe Heitzeberg is the Founder of AI Tinkerers.

Killian Lucas

Killian Lucas

Killian Lucas is the Lead Developer and Founder of Open Interpreter.

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Dev Tools Track

AI Tinkerers: Dev Tools is a new monthly session for the AI first builder: lightning demos, live code audits, and rapid-fire stack debates on the IDEs, the .md’s, and the agents. Brought to you by Actual AI.

John Kennedy

John Kennedy

John Kennedy is Founder & CEO of Actual AI.

Olivia Jacobs

Olivia Jacobs

Chief of Staff at Actual AI, Olivia Jacobs builds disruptive tech.

Klaus Bravenboer

Klaus Bravenboer

Klaus Bravenboer, Founder at Hack Humanity, is seeking contract work and product reviews.

Manya Singh

Manya Singh

Manya Singh is a Product Designer at Actual AI.

GTM Engineering

A track for builders using AI to ship GTM systems: outbound agents, RevOps automation, customer research, onboarding, programmatic content, growth analytics, and revenue workflows. No vendor pitches.

Dan Moore

Dan Moore

Dan Moore, Founder at Tarka, builds AI agents for GTM and professional networking.

Jimmy Gambier

Jimmy Gambier

Jimmy Gambier is a Group Product Manager at ecobee.

Alex Kochanik

Alex Kochanik

Alex Kochanik, Sales Director at Dragonfruit AI, is seeking new opportunities.

Women in AI

AI Tinkerers - Women in AI is a curated track for women actively building, researching, deploying, or leading real AI work. It brings serious builders together to share demos, lessons, failures, and collaborations in a high-signal room where specificity matters more than status.

Keerti Bhogaraju

Keerti Bhogaraju

Sr. AI/ML Engineer at Provation. Keerti Bhogaraju is based in Seattle.