Member Directory
Abi Odugbesan is the founder of Split EV, based in New York, a company that connects drivers with chargers at participating homes and businesses. Abi has founded two companies and is an alum of the Techstars and NVIDIA Inception programs. The company's goal is to put underused chargers at homes, offices and local shops to work through one booking app.
Arinze Okigbo is the founder and CEO of Splita, a fintech company whose platform lets groups collect each member's share upfront and pay vendors in full. Alongside Splita, Arinze works as a software developer intern at Queralt Inc., where he leads research on browser-native authentication, and studies computer science at New York University. Arinze's current focus is fintech infrastructure that pa
Jin Henry is an independent AI and full stack engineer based in New York, US. Their public GitHub profile emphasizes scalable web solutions built with React and Laravel, with a remote-first way of working. Jin's current toolkit includes the OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and Lovable for building AI-powered applications.
Greg Bildson is CTO at Stealth, based in New York. Greg previously served as cofounder and CTO of Kanvas, as CTO and COO of LimeWire, and as CTO of Originalis, and he has also worked on deep learning at Tumblr. His public GitHub work includes AgenticRAG, a project for agentic retrieval over local documents and read-only SQLite databases.
Based in New York, Jerome Mendell serves as Chief Revenue Officer at Karini AI, a company whose platform helps enterprises build, deploy, scale and govern AI agents. He has held the Karini AI role since January 2024, and his professional profile highlights enterprise AI go-to-market work, AWS partner programs and B2B SaaS growth. His current focus is bringing agentic AI into enterprise use and cus
Kunal Pattanayak is a Quantitative Researcher at Engineers Gate, a quantitative investment manager that trades in global financial markets with computer-driven systems. Kunal focuses on systematic market-neutral long/short equity strategies, which the firm builds with quantitative research and advanced technology. Engineers Gate was launched in 2014, and its investment teams each focus on independ
Aeshna Kapoor is an AI engineer at BNY, a global financial services platforms company at the heart of the world's capital markets. Aeshna builds AI agents for cyber security and works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code. Based in New York, Aeshna focuses on agent work in cyber security.
Haron Wilson is a founder of FutreEng, a boutique software studio in New York. The studio builds web apps, PWAs, and bespoke software for community organizations, labor groups, and operators working in industries they know. Haron works alongside one co-founder on every project, end to end, and the studio has shipped 12 projects across the tri-state area.
Ashish Rai is a Founding Engineer at DartIQ in New York, New York, focused on applied AI research and engineering. Ashish has built open source projects on ARC-AGI, including an approach that frames the task as inpainting with discrete diffusion models. Current work centers on multimodal learning, mechanistic interpretability, and robotics, with robotics models published on Hugging Face.
Full-Stack Developer | Entrepreneur Founder & CEO of Perfectlyhost.
Technical Founder of CHAOS-dev.ai
Yinchang Li is the part-time founder of WisBot, a New York company that builds, hosts, and maintains custom business applications for senior executives building expertise-based businesses. Yinchang has held GenAI lead and principal engineer roles at Turing and studied at Columbia University. Current work centers on WisBot, which pairs each client with a dedicated deployment and ongoing operations
Aubriana Alvarez Lopez is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing & Experience Officer at Agnitio, which makes AI agents that carry enterprise work from request to finished result, grounded in each client's data. Aubriana previously worked at Samsung and serves as a board member, and hosts the podcast Agents of Change: Human in the Loop. Aubriana's work centers on AI and AdTech leadership.
Nathan Coulas is an Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify, a commerce platform that serves online merchants. Nathan's public GitHub account, ngc, lists 28 repositories, including a pinned collection of solutions to competitive programming problems from contests in Canada. He is based in New York, where he works on Shopify's infrastructure.
Sahil Mahendrakar is an independent software development engineer based in New York who builds AI software for developers.
Dominick Krachtus is a systems engineer in New York who works on AI infrastructure at CoreWeave, where his title is Sr Systems Engineer. Open source work under the handle ttlequals0 includes Audicle, which turns a reading list into a podcast, and MinusPod, a self-hosted tool that strips ads from podcasts before playback. Lately he has also been building claude-trilium-sync, which moves Claude chat
Isayah Culbertson is a New York developer and GMI Cloud Ambassador who works as an AI engineer. Isayah builds open-source Python tools, including open-interpreter-toolkit, which creates tools for Open Interpreter, and a semi-automated YouTube channel project. Recent work includes maker-space, a Hugging Face Space, and Isayah works with tools such as Ollama, Supabase, and Vercel.
Jordan Weintraub is the Co-founder and CEO of Rippit, a New York company that operates a discovery platform for electronic music fans in NYC. Jordan studied at Lehigh University and has worked at Rippit since October 2025. Rippit lets members rate and review events, read first-hand accounts from people who attended, and receive suggestions matched to their taste.
Eran Baron is the co-founder and CEO of Deeto Inc., a New York company whose AI platform turns the voice of the customer into intelligence that business teams can act on. Before starting Deeto, he spent sixteen years in finance and general management roles at XMPie, a software firm later acquired by Xerox. He now concentrates on helping businesses draw growth from the experiences of their satisfie
William Highducheck is the founder of Sython AI, which provides LLM engineering services to teams that need strong quality, speed, cost control, and governance. His background includes time at Coinbase, and his LinkedIn profile lists him as co-founder and CTO as well as principal engineering consultant. His stated focus is distributed systems and custom augmented LLMs.
Anthony McAniff is the founder and principal engineer of Blue Sail Technologies, a New York company that builds AI products and runs the private AI platform beneath them. He is a DevOps and infrastructure engineer with a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, and his work covers cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, and production systems. Anthony's current focus
David Honig serves as Vice President at Larridin, Inc., which builds measurement tools that show enterprises what their AI spending costs and what their teams produce with it. He brings experience in AI, technology and SaaS leadership, along with revenue building and corporate partnerships. He has held the Vice President role since May 2025 and hosts a podcast.
Albar Rizwan is a sales specialist at KRG, based in New York. Albar works with AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Lovable, and uses Instantly and GitHub Copilot in their work. Their current focus is building a Meta AI lead generation system for their department to automate lead generation.
