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[email protected] RSVP Approved
Dexter Horthy is the founder and CEO of HumanLayer, a YC-backed startup focused on human-in-the-loop AI workflows. He possesses a strong technical background, including early work at NASA JPL and seven years at Replicated. Dexter is also an active community participant, evidenced by his talks and meetup attendance.
Building HumanLayer, a YC-backed API/SDK for human-in-the-loop AI workflows. Development focuses on the 12-Factor Agents manifesto, enabling safe AI agent deployments and reliable human-in-the-loop integrations for complex automated systems.
t***r@w*********i RSVP Approved
This individual is associated with Wordware, an AI startup. They have attended an AI Buildathon and demonstrate some community engagement. However, there is no public evidence of hands-on AI/ML building or shipped technical artifacts.
no projects mentioned
Sherwood Callaway RSVP Approved
Software Engineer at Unemployed
- exited YC founder
- built the biggest production AI agent on LangChain's cloud platform
- founding member of Brex infrastructure and engineering teams
AI, observability, DevOps, dev tools, reliability, coding agents
AI agents
Oscar Hong RSVP Approved
Engineer at Pacific Systems
Engineer, researcher, and writer. Ex-Plaid & Duke. Interested in tools to enable the next trillions of AI infrastructure buildout.
Embodied / physical AI, AI compute, semiconductors, chip design, novel hardware products, custom ASICs, SW-HW co-design.
Working on tools for scaling AI infra. Writing at oscarhong.net
Allie Howe RSVP Approved
Founder at Vairde
Ai security podcast host, OWASP Agentic Security initiative lead, founder of vairde
AI, security
HTTPS://vairde.ai
Insecure agents podcast
Kacper Kielak RSVP Approved
Member of Technical Staff at magic.dev
ML Engineer, ex-founder
ML, drones, hardware
3d printing, robots, drones
Matthias Pichler RSVP Approved
Founding Engineer at Wordware
Ex-Founder & CTO from Austria, AWS Wizard & Cloudflare Scholar, Founding Engineer at Wordware focused on infrastructure
AI Infrastructure
Cloud Computing
Serverless
Founding Engineer at Wordware: https://www.wordware.ai/
Building the interpreter for the Wordware programing language for realtime execution with streaming support.
Contributor to the Serverless Workflows specification (CNCF): https://serverlessworkflow.io/
A platform agnostic workflow definition language used by Huawei, RedHat, Apache EventMesh etc
Guillaume Roux-Romestaing RSVP Approved
Growth at Wordware
Guillaume Roux is Growth at Wordware.
Current projects include Solace, an app scaffold, and an AI auto-commenter leveraging Claude and JavaScript. He also maintains a media-assets repository for multimedia file management and recently participated in the AI Tinkerers SF Buildathon.
Bartek Struzinski RSVP Approved
SWE at Pathfinder
Bartek (Bartosz) Struzinski is a Lead Payments Engineer at Pathfinder. He has 9 years of experience and studied Computer Science at the National University of Singapore and Informatics at The University of Edinburgh.
Building a credit card payments system and launching a card program at Pathfinder. This involves engineering production payment flows, backend infrastructure, and financial data systems to support card issuance and transaction processing in a lead technical capacity.