Member Directory
Robert Mander serves as a Principal at Ryan, a finance and banking company. Robert also started Govlish, a company that builds a structured relational database for making sense of government. His public GitHub work includes a data set that organizes Bureau of Labor Statistics information into a federal agency taxonomy.
Adam Joseph, who is based in Washington, is the Founder and CEO of Clipbook, which builds AI-powered media intelligence for communications and corporate affairs teams. The Clipbook platform monitors and analyzes news, broadcast, social, podcast and policy sources, drawing on more than one million of them to help teams spot relevant developments. Adam is focused on applying AI to external data so t
Web developer. All around computer nerd. I use coding languages to build things. I used to be a co-founder.
Babu Jain is the founder and CEO of NAVIA ENERGY INC, a Washington company that brings AI software to energy infrastructure. Earlier, Babu led engineering at Infineon and founded NavSemi Energy, which Alpha Technologies later acquired. Outside Navia, he invests in and mentors young companies in chips, energy and specialized AI.
Plamen Balkanski is Co-Founder and Director of LeaveWizard, a professional and business services company based in Washington, US, with an online presence at leavewizard.com. He has served in both the co-founder and director roles since March 2011, a tenure of more than fifteen years that continues today.
Danny Unez is a Full-stack Developer at the Bill of Rights Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works to engage, educate, and empower people who value freedom and opportunity. Danny has been with the organization since August 2023, which was established in September 1999 and offers civic education resources for teachers and students. Their public profile also lists a focus on AI and scalable sys
Andrew Friedman is co-founder and Head of Business Operations at Voicera AI, which offers Sincerity, an API that software builders embed to convert facial and vocal cues in recorded conversations into sincerity scores. Since August 2023, Andrew has been a Principal at Cascade Fintech Compliance, a finance and banking firm. He also advises and co-builds with Warrant and SuiteFit, alongside his work
Matthew W. Thomas is an economist at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, US, a role he has held since 2023. He holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University, and his research covers microeconomic theory, including auctions, robust design, discrimination, contests, and financial markets. Matthew also builds open-source tools, such as inteq, a Python project for solving integral equa
Sol Zendejas-Smith is the Founder and CEO of Curbsight, a software company that helps roofing and home-services contractors find, measure, and win jobs from one system. Sol spent time in home-services sales and roofing in Oklahoma before starting the company. Sol builds Curbsight in public and still answers the company's sales line personally.
Hemanth Vamsi Krishna is an AI Engineer working independently in Washington, US, building AI systems from first principles. He previously worked as a Systems Engineer at TCS, has founded two startups, and completed a master's degree in artificial intelligence in 2026. His current focus includes deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, with volunteer work on an offline, on-p
Floris Chaumat is the Founder and CEO of Tradora.ai, a company that helps vehicle owners see their car's value, equity, insurance, maintenance, history and protection together. Floris is based in Washington, US, and works where AI, automotive and fintech meet. Floris is focused on building a platform for vehicle ownership, with Axia, an AI copilot, guiding owners from purchase to sale.
Darrell Mesa is the founder of Eli Labz, a company that builds Intelligent Machine Systems (IMS) that work beside human crews on real operations. Darrell is known for open-source projects on GitHub, including Agent Execution Partnership, a control plane for authorizing, observing, and verifying AI agent actions, and Godcoder, a local-first coding agent.
AI Adoption & Deployment Leader | Technical Customer Success | US National Science Foundation Principal Investigator | Former AI Founder | CPA
Mansoor Hannan is a founder and CEO based in Washington, US, leading DioxAI, which provides free AI-powered tools, calculators, and articles on AI, SEO, and career guidance for job seekers, creators, and developers. Hannan also works as a web developer, AI builder, and SEO specialist, and has published the dioxai-backend Python project on GitHub. Current work centers on the DioxAI tool suite, incl
Saicharan Ramineni is an undergraduate research assistant at the University of Central Florida, studying computer science in the Burnett Honors College. Saicharan is a four-time hackathon winner whose work includes Hacklytics-GoldenByte, a 3D geospatial intelligence platform that identifies overlooked healthcare crises using vector-embedded humanitarian data.
Founder of Rockbound Capital. AI researcher.
Rakesh Esh is a developer affiliated with Northeastern University, working on deep learning and the optimization of large models. His GitHub profile describes him as a senior machine learning engineer and researcher with a master's degree in applied mathematics. Rakesh has published 19 public repositories, including nanoGPT, nanoDiffusion and LLMBank, and a Hugging Face Space called Quantization.
