Experts and Vendors¶

Over the years, I've built a network of AI and ML specialists, vendors, and industry experts. As part of both the comprehensive and strategic consulting packages, you'll have access to this network, including:

Experts¶

Hamel Husain¶

• LLM Consultant, R&D at Answer AI
• Focus: ML tools, infrastructure, and LLM evaluations

Eugene Yan¶

• ML Research Scientist at Amazon
• Focus: Recommender Systems and Large Language Models

Thomas Millar¶

• ML and Data Platforms expert
• Focus: High-performance inference servers in Python and Elixir

Shreya Shankar¶

• Expert in LLM Evals, PhD student at Berkeley
• Focus: Practical ML solutions

Skylar Payne¶

• Independent Consultant and Executive Coach
• Background: Former VP of Engineering & Data Science

John Berryman¶

• Author of "Relevant Search" and "Prompt Engineering for LLMs"
• Background: Former GitHub Code Search and Copilot contributor

Zhou Yu¶

• Data science & ML consultant
• Focus: Helping early stage companies build data science capabilities
• Background: Former head of data science at Google, Stitch Fix, and Signalfire

Trusted Vendors¶

Braintrust¶

• Ankur Goyal, CEO
• Product: LLM evals and observability platform

LanceDB¶

• Chang She, CEO
• Product: Database for Multimodal AI

Modal Labs¶

• Akshat Bubna, Co-founder
• Product: Serverless platform for AI, data and ML teams

Vespa.ai¶

• Jo Kristian Bergum, Chief Scientist
• Product: Search, recommendation, and ranking systems

Extend¶

• Kushal Byatnal, CEO
• Product: AI-driven document processing and business transformation

Shaped¶

• Tullie Murrell, CEO
• Product: AI recommendation and search platform for marketplaces, e-commerce, and content

Haize Labs¶

• Leonard Tang, CEO
• Product: LLM robustness through red teaming and observability techniques