AI Tinkerers - LA Hackathon

I'm a seasoned AI/ML Engineer and high-performing team leader with 25+ years of experience leading, architecting, and building data-centric projects from startup to enterprise scale.

I'm interested in leading teams to build impactful AI and ML applications in a company that values teamwork, innovation, and growth.

Building data products and orchestrating AI agents! Last role was at Lattice integrating agentic AI throughout their people management platform.

2x venture backed founder, fintech social network analysis company went through series of M&A, agricultural machine learning robotics company boom then bust. open source AI builder. host LA AI Tinkerers.

Advanced applications of hybrid multi agent llm models to the toughest problems. I want to contribute to the field and to my family, and to humanity writ large. I believe everything from corporate automation to synthetic time travel is possible with LLMs. I'm also interested in building new community infrastructure, which is why, in part, I host Tinkerers.

I'm working on Semantic Life (semantic-life.com), which builds roleplaying AI agents that have email addresses. They can automate large business processes, and streamline with end users simply. I'm also working on All One Thing (allonething.xyz), which builds community infrastructure and events. I write books on the side. My first book, EMERGENT, is for sale now. It's about the future of humanity, AI, and stories. I'm working on a new book, PURPLE. I'm always making art on the side.

I am the CEO of Oxen.ai, have been working in AI/ML since 2012, building dev tools to help iterate on the data that makes modern AI systems work.

How to make datasets as accessible and easy to use as possible.

Currently working on Oxen.ai and different fine-tuning pipelines for smol LMs