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.
July 07, 2026 - Paris
See how a real agent defect was fixed live, demonstrating evals, testing, and system improvement without regression. This talk showcases a complete, working agent system.
May 26, 2026 - Seattle
Learn how to automate speaker badges to drive community growth. This talk demonstrates a system that generates, emails, and tracks shareable badges for recognized builders, showcasing a real-world growth automation loop.
May 18, 2026 - San Francisco
Learn how to build a deterministic AI video editing pipeline using LLMs for smart decisions and ffmpeg for reliable rendering, breaking down complex tasks into small, tested skills.
January 22, 2025 - Seattle
Learn how to transform any video into a viral sensation using readily available open-source tools in this straightforward demonstration.
December 03, 2024 - Montreal
Learn how to cut Gemini context caching costs by 74% and improve response times by 17% using a two-layer Redis and Google cache system.
July 23, 2024 - Chicago
Hear about AI Tinkerers' global growth, hands-on projects, and impactful innovations. Discover how the community actively builds and collaborates, inspiring future AI development.
February 26, 2024 - Boston
Explore Gemini 1.5's long-context capabilities with a million tokens of medical data, comparing its accuracy to RAG for complex clinical information.
December 05, 2023 - Chicago
Learn how to create new videos using a YouTube URL and your own voice with Youdub.ai, showcasing Replicate, OpenAI, and FFmpeg.
October 04, 2023 - Chicago
Learn how a RAG + Claude 100k system was built to quickly understand complex medical information for a personal health crisis, sharing practical lessons learned.
