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Senior engineers who left large tech companies for seed and Series A AI startups in 2025.
219 results across 119 people, 100 companies
1
Ben Hertzberg24y exp
Architecture, Compilers, Firmware
Santa Clara, California, United States· 1y at co.
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Qaizar Sogiawala35y exp
Seasoned DevOps
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
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Shimon Ulewicz17y exp
Software Engineer
St Albert, Alberta, Canada· 1y at co.
4
Ian Lee11y exp
Staff Software Engineer at Inworld AI
Berkeley, California, United StatesRecently started
5
Roman Gusarov14y exp
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesRecently started
6
Michael Padilla30y exp
Research Engineer | Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Signal Processing | ex-Sony | PhD EE @ Stanford
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
7
Alex Bligh33y exp
Vice President, Software and Site Reliability Engineering (Interim) at Crux AI (ex Google)
Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandRecently started
8
Smarita Sharma9y exp
Infra @ Personal AI
Mountain View, California, United States· 1y at co.
9
Cedric Jones12y exp
Senior Network Operations Engineer at Groq
Greater Augusta AreaRecently started
10
Mohammed Al Humayani9y exp
Senior Data center engineer @ Groq
Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi ArabiaRecently started
11
John Nnamchi15y exp
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Groq
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
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Mitesh Kumar15y exp
Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesRecently started
13
Evan Pollard23y exp
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
14
Ian Prins12y exp
Staff ML Compiler Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
15
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Bibhuti Bhusan Panda10y exp
Open Source Contributor | Founding Engineer@Nektar.ai | xFounding Engineer@Wingman(Acquired by Clari) | xVedantu | xOracle | Computer Science and Engineering@NIT Agartala | Proud Navodayan
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
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Dennis Dinwiddie7y exp
Software Engineer
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area· 1y at co.
17
Moneim Yehia15y exp
Senior Sales Engineer, EMEA @ DNSFilter
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesRecently started
18
Rick Cohen16y exp
Senior Quality Engineer @ DNSFilter
Wichita, Kansas, United States· 1y at co.Possibly open
19
V Sashi Kanth Nagireddi14y exp
Senior Software Test Engineer at Daybreak | Quality Engineering | Test Automation | Playwright | API & Performance Testing | AI Labor for Enterprise Planning
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, IndiaRecently started
20
Vishal F.19y exp
DevOps & DevSecOps Architect/Lead/Manager | Cloud or Hybrid Infrastructure Architect | CI/CD | Kubernetes | AWS | Driving Secure, Scalable Engineering Excellence
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India· 1y at co.
21
Chetan Desh28y exp
Staff AI Engineer | AI/ML Platform Architecture | Production Multi-Agent Systems, LangChain, Temporal, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems | Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Amazon
Greater Seattle AreaRecently started
22
Scott H.32y exp
Principal Software Engineer at GC AI
Seattle, Washington, United StatesRecently started
23
Yoav Ilan28y exp
Startup CTO & AI Engineering Leader · Ex-Meta M2 · 2x Founder/Exit · GenAI Systems
New York, New York, United StatesRecently started
24
Nick Kirkes21y exp
Engineering Leader | AI Engineering & Ops| Ex-Zoom, Ex-Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Charlotte MetroRecently started
25
Georgios Spithourakis17y exp
PhD CompSci ML AI NLP ConvAI
London, England, United Kingdom· 1y at co.
26
Ali Shahed15y exp
Lead AI @ CK-12 Foundation
Mountain View, California, United StatesRecently started
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Till Kern10y exp
Building Central Europe @ Cognition AI
United KingdomRecently started
28
Yi Lu20y exp
Principal Engineer at Euclyd | Former Co-Founder, Axelera AI
The Randstad, NetherlandsRecently started
29
Eric Humphrey17y exp
ML/AI Expert, Doer of Good (ex-Spotify)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United StatesRecently started
30
Ivan Leon19y exp
DistSys & AI | Building human-centric products & systems
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
31
Omkar Joshi11y exp
Analog design engineer at Encharge AI
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
32
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MESUT ILHANER20y exp
Engineering Leader | Software Engineering Mentor | AI Expert
Los Angeles, California, United States· 1y at co.
33
Michael Martis13y exp
Software Engineer | Experienced generalist | AI | C++ | High-performance applications
Australia· 1y at co.
34
Henry Bruce31y exp
Embedded Systems | Video Analytics | AI at the Edge
Portland, Oregon, United States· 1y at co.
35
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Devika Ranade3y exp
Senior Software Engineer | Building AI-Powered Financial Infrastructure | Fintech, Payments & Compliance Systems | Distributed Systems
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
36
Srijan Verma10y exp
Full-Stack Engineer at Dynamo AI • Prev - Apple, Apollo.io, Cactus • BITS Pilani
Gurugram, Haryana, IndiaRecently started
37
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Ritesh Kumar15y exp
Staff Engineer @ Lightbeam AI | Ex-Salesforce/Nutanix | Applied Generative AI (Purdue) | IIT Bhubaneswar
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
38
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Amritha Dilip15y exp
Epistemophiliac | Technologist | ex-Microsoft AI
Greater Seattle AreaRecently started
39
Rajarshi Ghoshal8y exp
Senior Machine Learning Engineer | ex-Microsoft Azure OpenAI | Production GenAI & AI Agents | LLM Evaluation, MLOps & Model Reliability | ACL · ICLR · SC26
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
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Isa Watanabe13y exp
Staff AI Engineer | Healthcare AI
St Paul, Minnesota, United StatesRecently started
41
Adam Szymański20y exp
Software engineer passionate about the data, algorithms and AI
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, PolandRecently started
42
Himica K.13y exp
Mission-Driven Software Engineer | AI /ML products
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
43
Jou-ching Sung18y exp
Founding AI Engineer | LLM Post-Training & Reinforcement Learning (RLAIF/RLVR, GRPO) | Ex-Amazon, BMW, AMD
Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan· 1y at co.
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Chintan Donda17y exp
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer @ TrueFoundry | AI/LLM & MCP Gateway, GenAI, AI Agents, LLMs, RAG, Finetuning, Evaluations, Observability, Deployment, Data Science Expert | Ex-[Wadhwani AI, Intel, Samsung R&D, Jio-Embibe]
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
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Sanjeeva Kumar Kalva17y exp
Principal AI Engineer at PeopleLoop
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
46
Rajkumar Sengottuvel26y exp
AI Solutions Leader | Agentic AI • Computer Vision • VLMs • RAG • MCP | LLM/VLM Fine-Tuning • GenAI Architecture | ex-Oracle | Kaggle Expert
Austin, Texas, United StatesRecently started
47
Mosaab Muhammad7y exp
Senior AI Engineer | ex-Microsoft | Turning Ideas💡 into Profitable Products ⚙️ using AI 🤖
Cairo, EgyptRecently started
48
Kanwar G.19y exp
AI & Full Stack Software Engineer | Building Scalable Applications
Canada· 1y at co.
49
Vatsal Shah13y exp
Applied AI Lead @ Intuit Credit Karma
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
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Miguel Mendez33y exp
Principal Engineer @ Sema4.ai | Distributed Systems, Software Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesRecently started
Ben Sharpe38y exp
AI-enhanced Project Management Tool (CodeBake.ai)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
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Ankan Singhvi21y exp
Technology & Engineering Leader | ex-CTO @ Freo | Ezetap → Razorpay | Fintech, Payments & AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Moenes Iskarous32y exp
Technology Excutive and CTO | AI | Build and lead high performing teams to develop Embedded Intelligence
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
Konrad Niemiec13y exp
Building Internal Data & AI Tools @ Lightspeed | Founder of Lekko | ex-Rippling&Uber
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.Recently started
Chandler Barnes12y exp
Senior Software Engineer @ Realm
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Ex-Amazon, CTO/Founder | Building AI Systems, Knowledge Bases, and Agentic Products
Nashville, Tennessee, United States· 1y at co.Recently started
David Fox28y exp
CRO & Growth Architect | Scaling SaaS + AI $10M → $100M+ ARR | Founder, AscendRevenue
San Francisco, California, United States· 1y at co.
Piotr Obarski10y exp
Machine Learning | AI
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland· 1y at co.
Ken Thompson24y exp
🤖💊 AI-Pilled Product Leader - CPO @ AutoGrab - I ship AI-native products and the AI tooling that runs the team | Vision-led, hands-on, principled; so the team can do work that actually matters
Greater Melbourne AreaRecently started
Cosimo Wei12y exp
Subscription CTO — building the custom tools your firm needs, with AI, so you don’t hire a dev team — and coach your people to use them. Ex-Pinscreen CTO (AI VFX). Fractional CTO, on a monthly plan.
Los Angeles, California, United StatesRecently started
Ryan Frew17y exp
AI Solution Design & Operational Enablement
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States· 1y at co.
Michael Conward13y exp
Co-Founder & CEO, MyLÚA Health · AI agents for women’s health, starting in maternal care · IBM THINK 2026 speaker · NIH RADx Award winner
Miami, Florida, United StatesRecently started
Aditya Rola12y exp
Staff Engineer | Agentic AI Systems · Distributed Backends · On-Chain Infra · Defi | I write about what breaks at scale
Delhi, India· 1y at co.
Pratyush Goel7y exp
Senior SDE @ Deeprunner AI | Ex-CTO @ FilterPixel | Ex-Microsoft | Senior Full Stack Engineer
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaRecently started
Toatzin Padilla18y exp
Tech Lead Building AI Agents & Realtime Systems @ SalesHood | Former CTO & Co-founder at Liberet & Fuddis | LLM Orchestration, Tool Calling, Realtime Voice AI & Context Engineering | Techstars Miami 2023
Guadalajara, Mexico Metropolitan AreaRecently started
Bharatdeep Maan11y exp
Building AI Products 🚀
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRecently started
Johnny Boursiquot28y exp
Technology Leader | Software Architect | AI Engineering | Distributed Systems | Go | AWS
Washington DC-Baltimore Area· 1y at co.
Rinie Huijgen30y exp
Owner & CTO, DevOps Masterminds | Masterminds Group | Azure, AI driven engineering, legacy modernization, IaC, FinOps, Azure AI Foundry
Greater Enschede Area· 1y at co.Recently started
Benjamin Ejlertsen9y exp
AI / ML Engineer | I’ve helped companies implement AI and ML over the last 7 years.
Vipperød, Region Zealand, Denmark· 1y at co.
Kingsley Northcott12y exp
Fractional CTO & Head of Digital | Full-Stack Developer | Technical SEO Expert | AI Systems Architect | Building & Shipping for Ambitious Founders
Seattle, Washington, United States· 1y at co.Recently started
Madhusudan Satapathy12y exp
Director, DevOps & Platform Engineering - Katonic AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Robert Macrae16y exp
Principal AI Architect at Tribe AI
London Area, United KingdomRecently started
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Enguerrand P.12y exp
HPC&AI Principal Solution Architect
Greater Pau AreaRecently started
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Michael Denisson20y exp
Chief Architect | Ex-BCG | Technology & Transformation Leader | Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, AI/ML
New York City Metropolitan AreaRecently started
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Ranjith T R30y exp
Gen AI, Digital Transformation, Multi Cloud, Data Engineering , DevSecOps, Enterprise Governance ( Ex IBM , CapGemini , Atos ), Tech Consultation & Pre-Sales
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesRecently started
Aravindan M.5y exp
Senior Engineer @ AraResearch.ai | AI Agents Builder | AI automations specialist
Delhi, India· 1y at co.Possibly open
Tuomas Tikkanen14y exp
Senior ML/AI Engineer
Helsinki, Uusimaa, FinlandRecently started
Tejaswi Redkar29y exp
Founder | CEO | Chief of AI | Board Advisor | Microsoft Azure | AppDynamics | Cisco | Sumo Logic | LogicMonitor
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.Recently started
Sooraj T. S17y exp
Solution Architect | Lead SRE | AI Infrastructure & GPUaaS | LLM / MLOps Deployment | NVIDIA Certified AI Associate |⎈ Kubernetes (CKA | CKAD | CKS) ⎈ | AI Cloud Infra Orchestration (IaaS and Self Service PaaS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Lukas Fröhlich15y exp
Lead Robotics AI Engineer @ RIVR, an Amazon company | ETH PhD
SwitzerlandRecently started
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Ali Abassi12y exp
AI Engineer @ Lindy | Agent Performance, Evals, & Self-Improvement Systems
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area· 1y at co.Possibly open
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Ali Cheikh18y exp
Senior Sales Engineer at Push Security | The Secure Enterprise Browser Extension Built for the AI era
Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaRecently started
Bilel Khlaifia8y exp
Geospatial AI Engineer
Doha Metropolitan Area· 1y at co.
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Vincent Button26y exp
I lead with AI - for Architecture, Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Automation, and BusOps - creating agents, assistants, and apps to deliver success. #ClaudeCode #Copilot #Openclaw #Github #Fable #Ollama #Skills #MCP
Dallas, Texas, United States· 1y at co.
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Cyrus N.7y exp
Staff Platform Engineer | C#/.NET · AI/ML · Security-Critical Systems · Real-Time Concurrency
Building platforms at scale.
Nairobi County, Kenya· 1y at co.
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Apurva Mody29y exp
Principal Enterprise Architect | Data, AI, Cloud & Technical Delivery | Generative & Agentic AI | Microsoft GraphRAG |
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States· 1y at co.
Ivan Pusic16y exp
@dune.com | Senior Software Engineer | Web3, Blockchain, AI, Agents, Full Stack | Remote First | Building Future-Ready Tech
Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia· 1y at co.
Brenton Gunning23y exp
Software engineer / lead passionate about Web3, Rust, AI, and Computer Graphics
United StatesRecently started
Ethan Lo23y exp
Chief Architect @ Ethyca | Responsible AI | Data Governance (we’re hiring!)
United StatesRecently started
Varun V Deshpande9y exp
Senior Software Engineer | Python (Flask, Django), Node.js & Express, React | Cloud & DevOps (AWS, Azure) | AI & Scalable Systems
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab EmiratesRecently started
TJ Patterson27y exp
AI Systems Architect | First-Principles Engineering | NVIDIA Inception Program
United StatesRecently started
Syed Asad15y exp
AI/ML Leader | Enterprise & Research Grade Systems Engineering | Ex-IBM, Amazon
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesRecently started
Cameron Bell13y exp
AI Engineer
Draper, Utah, United StatesRecently started
Niladri Das5y exp
Full Stack Developer | Gen AI only. DM to go live.
Kolkata, West Bengal, India· 1y at co.
Zhenya Minkovich14y exp
Experienced Product AI Engineer with 15+ years building at scale, focused on LLM integration, vector search, MCP architecture, and retrieval pipelines — bridging model capability with real user impact.
Los Gatos, California, United StatesRecently started
Constantin Alexander18y exp
Ai Architecture | Anti-Git 🛑 | Ai Research |Apache Paimon + Apache Iceberg | Apache Flink + Apache Fluss | Ai Ops | PostgreSQL support | AWS & GCP Specialist | Data Modeling | AI Ops | RAG | MCP |
Miami-Fort Lauderdale AreaRecently started
Muhammad Ghulam Jillani7y exp
AI Systems Architect & Founder of Jillani SofTech | I Ship Production RAG, AI Agents & LLM SaaS that Businesses Run ON | LangGraph, AWS, Azure, GCP | 22+ AI Systems Delivered | Top 100 Kaggle Master | Google & NVIDIA AI
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United StatesRecently started
Sai Movva11y exp
Building the next frontier of AGI through high-fidelity RL environments, data and talent @ Scaler AI Labs | Ex-Eightfold | Ex-Scaler
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Todd Whitehead27y exp
Principal AI Architect at Agile Insights
Greater Brisbane AreaRecently started
Praveen Patel13y exp
Backend Engineering Curately AI | ex Embibe, JP Morgan, Edelweiss, IIT Bombay | High-Performance Distributed Systems, Java 21, Microservice, Kafka, Docker/K8s, AWS/GCP | HLD/LLD | Leadership | Startup
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Tushar Khete6y exp
Lead AI Engineer | Agentic AI | GEN AI | AWS
Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaRecently started
Pallav Kalal7y exp
Senior Java Backend Engineer | Building 0-to-1 Products From Scratch | High-Scale Distributed Systems | Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Data structures | AWS & GCP, System Design | RAG & Applied AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India· 1y at co.Possibly open
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Harihara Subramanian J26y exp
Chief Software Architect @ Krisova | AI Security, Platform Architecture | PQC Researcher
Greater Bengaluru AreaRecently started
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Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar25y exp
Unlocking Data and AI
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia· 8y at co.Likely open
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Anup Jadhav22y exp
Agentic AI Engineering | Building Scalable AI Systems
London, England, United KingdomRecently started
G Naga Subrahmanyam12y exp
8+ Years Lead Engineer Experience with Gen AI Engineering| DoSelect (acquired by InfoEdge Ltd) | Ex-Intern Juspay
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
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Khushi J13y exp
Lead AI/ML Architect l AI/NLP Proficient l FinTech | 11+ Yrs Exp
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Mangal Sain27y exp
Co-Founder@GuavaTrips | AI assisted Product Development
Maharashtra, India· 1y at co.
Manoj Choudhari18y exp
Developer | Blogger | AI, .NET & Azure
Netherlands· 1y at co.
Ana Inés Urrutia11y exp
Founder & CEO @ AInesHR & PIMBA | Building AI-native compliance platforms for European businesses | EU AI Act | Microsoft MVP | Published Author
Zürich Metropolitan AreaRecently started
Ankur Verma15y exp
VP of Infrastructure & DevOps Operations | Platform Engineering | AI-Driven DevEx | ISO 27001 & SOC2 Governance | AWS Specialist
New Delhi, Delhi, India· 1y at co.
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Vineet Kumar Agrawal7y exp
Senior Software Engineer @ Constantinople | Fintech & Gen-AI | Building Scalable & Distributed Systems | Golang, Java, Typescript, React, AWS | AI Game Builder - 10k+ Downloads
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Shubham Gupta7y exp
Senior MLE@Exponential AI |Ex-HCL Tech| Ex Nvidia Intern
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India· 1y at co.
Islam Alaarag19y exp
Principal AI Engineer
Egypt· 1y at co.
Dave Bloch16y exp
AI Solution Engineering | Fortune 500 AI Agent Deployments for CX | Presales, Enterprise Architecture, GTM Growth
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
Anvith E.13y exp
Tech-Lead Manager, Computer Vision & Physical AI
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
Sachin Bhardwaj12y exp
Agentic AI, AI workflows, DevOps, Architect
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaRecently started
Ritesh Das19y exp
Taking AI Agents from the Sandbox to the Boardroom.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India· 1y at co.
George H.20y exp
Engineering @ Henry AI
New York, New York, United States· 1y at co.
Kanishk Agrawal7y exp
Senior DevOps Engineer | Platform Engineering | Kubernetes | AWS | AI/LLM Infrastructure | Terraform | Observability
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India· 1y at co.Possibly open
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