Member Directory

Ajay Dugar is a Principal Consultant at AstroBridge Advisors, which connects a global network of private capital with space and deep tech ventures. Earlier work includes time at Nokia, HP and Paramount Pictures. Ajay's current focus covers scouting, investment, advisory and strategic partnerships for ventures in AI, quantum, advanced materials, robotics, photonics and semiconductors.

What I build Luria is a privacy-first neuropsychology platform with local AI for report generation, psychometric interpretation, and retrieval-augmented generation. Everything stays in the practice. The clinician makes every decision. First deployment is my own practice. What I have done Assistant Professor at USC's Keck School of Medicine. I founded BrainWorkup Neuropsychology, providing evidence

Jean-Philippe Steinmetz is a Co-Founder of Pando Cloud, a Los Angeles company that builds products and services by combining AI with human engineering. He has worked in the game industry for more than 20 years and has shipped over 12 titles, with earlier roles at Xsolla, Skydance and Spark Unlimited. He also publishes open-source tools, including pyrocopy, a Python file utility inspired by Windows

Full-Stack Data Scientist, ML Engineer, Backend Developer, and Open-Source Contributor

Operations leader who ships production systems solo, then deploys them with the team that runs them. Full-stack and agentic systems on Claude. Founder, Databros

Michael Washington is a programmer in Los Angeles who runs ADefWebserver.com, a company that provides website hosting services. Michael works mainly with ASP.NET and C#, and his public GitHub projects include Blazor-Blogs, a simple blogging application, and BlazorSimpleSurvey. His current focus is SimpleChat, a chat program that supports Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

Creative Developer, Inventor, Musician and (last but not least) Father

Mostly building in javascript & python at the moment.

Jake Mellman is the cofounder and CEO of Psilly Goose, a Los Angeles company that makes plant and mushroom based, non-alcoholic drinks as an alternative to alcohol. Before that, he ran Troop, a maker of functional mushroom gummies, and picked up experience in consumer packaged goods and e-commerce. Jake is now building an AI-native operating system for the company that handles wholesale sales, con

AjitKumar Senthil Kumar is an applied AI engineer and research assistant at the University at Buffalo, where he is finishing a Master of Science in Data Science. He started in mechanical engineering before moving into data science and machine learning. He now focuses on agentic LLM systems, agentic RAG and AI infrastructure, and builds with tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

Brittany J Parks is the Founder and CEO of STUDIO BRITTANY, a boutique creative studio that offers branding, copywriting, web design and content strategy to creators and small businesses. She is a creative marketing strategist and designer who studied at Academy of Art University. Brittany now builds AI workflows, Claude Skills and Custom GPTs for creatives, and shares them in a public library on

Amit Shukla is an independent AI engineer, researcher and entrepreneur in Los Angeles, working on AI agents for ERP and on language models for Indian languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi and Tamil. He has worked with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft, and runs Elish Consulting, which supports education and healthcare work in India. His open-source projects include school management, payr