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The people this community is built around

The people this community is built around

Why become a Resident Expert?

Stay close to the frontier

The fastest-moving knowledge in AI is not sitting in a blog post. It is with the people who tried something last week. As a Resident Expert, you are in the middle of that exchange. You spend time around founders running live experiments, sharing what worked, what failed, and what changed before any of it gets stale. For experienced operators, it is one of the best ways to stay current.

The fastest-moving knowledge in AI is not sitting in a blog post. It is with the people who tried something last week. As a Resident Expert, you are in the middle of that exchange. You spend time around founders running live experiments, sharing what worked, what failed, and what changed before any of it gets stale. For experienced operators, it is one of the best ways to stay current.

Meet the next wave first

The founders who will shape the next decade of AI are already building here. Resident Experts get to know them early, as advisors, angels, board members, co-founders, or future colleagues. The relationships that turn into your next move often start in rooms like this.

The founders who will shape the next decade of AI are already building here. Resident Experts get to know them early, as advisors, angels, board members, co-founders, or future colleagues. The relationships that turn into your next move often start in rooms like this.

Put your experience to work

You have hard-won lessons about pricing, hiring, scaling, fundraising, product, and the parts of company-building that never make it into the playbook. Resident Experts pass that knowledge to founders who are in it now. It is high-leverage mentorship for people who will actually use it.

You have hard-won lessons about pricing, hiring, scaling, fundraising, product, and the parts of company-building that never make it into the playbook. Resident Experts pass that knowledge to founders who are in it now. It is high-leverage mentorship for people who will actually use it.

A home base on the Seattle waterfront

Resident Experts have a standing place at Pier 70, with open desks in the heart of the community. Come to work, advise, join events, or just be where the momentum is.

Resident Experts have a standing place at Pier 70, with open desks in the heart of the community. Come to work, advise, join events, or just be where the momentum is.

Who we look for?

Resident Experts bring real technical or operating depth and a genuine pull toward community. We look for three things.

Resident Experts bring real technical or operating depth and a genuine pull toward community. We look for three things.

Deep domain expertise

You have operated at a high level in your field, technical or commercial, and have the scar tissue to prove it.

Genuine curiosity about AI

You want to keep learning and building at the edge of what is now possible, not just trade on what you already know.

A pull toward people

You get energy from connecting others, answering hard questions, and helping founders avoid mistakes you have already made.

A pull toward people

You get energy from connecting others, answering hard questions, and helping founders avoid mistakes you have already made.

How it works

It is lightweight by design. Resident Experts spend time at Pier 70, join the events and groups that fit, and make themselves available to founders who would benefit from their depth.

You give what you can. What you get back tends to compound: the relationships, the early look at what is being built, and the pulse on where AI is actually going.

It is lightweight by design. Resident Experts spend time at Pier 70, join the events and groups that fit, and make themselves available to founders who would benefit from their depth.

You give what you can. What you get back tends to compound: the relationships, the early look at what is being built, and the pulse on where AI is actually going.

Resident Expert Application

Current resident experts

Current resident experts

Our community is anchored by Resident Experts who bring real technical and operating depth. They include applied AI research leaders, founders, builders, engineering executives, product and design leaders, and startup operators who have built through the problems others are still figuring out.

Our community is anchored by Resident Experts who bring real technical and operating depth. They include applied AI research leaders, founders, builders, engineering executives, product and design leaders, and startup operators who have built through the problems others are still figuring out.

Aaron Goldfeder

Director, CEO, Founder

AZX

Abhinav Shukla

Applied Scientist

Amazon Fulfilment Technologies & Robotics

Adam Burgh

Founder and CEO

Stealth Startup

Adam Tratt

Founder / CEO / CMO

Haiku Deck

Ajit Banerjee

Architect

Hugging Face

Alex Maestretti

Co-Founder

Twnstr

Alexandra Taylor

Co-Founder & COO | Author

Sphere

Amirsina Eskandarifar

Senior Data & Applied Scientist

Microsoft

Andy Peng

Builder at Amazon | NeurIPS25 Co-Chair

Amazon Web Services, NeurlIPS

Angela Steffens (Thomas)

Founder, Full Stack Engineer

Alternate Futures

Anh Nguyen

Senior Researcher

Apple

Anna Fuller

Head of Product

Big Sur AI

Anthony Anderson

Scientist-Engineer / Wearables at FDA

FDA, University of Washington

Archis Gore

Senior Staff Production Engineer

Meta

Arvind Vivekanandan

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

Ash Bhoopathy

Co-Founder and CEO

Poseidon

Ashish Sinha

AI Strategic Growth Leader

AWS

Brewster Stanislaw

Product Leader, Entrepreneur, Investor

Brian Fioca

Founder, Advisor

RescueTime

Bridget Perry

Chief Marketing Officer and Advisor

Tola Capital | Hexus

Bruce Brewington

Founder

Korgo

Camron Lee

Manager of Product Management

Valant

Choong Ng

Engineer | Principal

Gumshoe AI | Transitive LLC

Cole Krumbholz

Founder, Head of Product

Formspree

Corbin Cunningham

Senior Staff UX Research Manager

Google

Courtnie Paschall

Founder | PhD Neural Engineering + Data Science

Invirtualis.ai

Dan Koch

CTO, Advisor

Tomo

Daryn Nakhuda

Head of Software

Waabi

David Pitman

Co-Founder

Stealth Startup

David Uvalle

Lead Machine Learning Engineer | Al, ML, Search

Adobe

Desney Tan

Corporate VP and Managing Director

Microsoft Research

Diego Oppenheimer

Head of Product | Co-Founder

Hyperparam | Guardrails AI

Dirk Groeneveld

Prinicipal Software Engineer

Ai2 Research Institute

Dwight Ware

Founder

MindCycle

Edward Zhang

Chief Technology Officer

Nuance Labs

Eran Megiddo

CEO and Co-founder

Maximal Learning

Eric Aderhold

Software Engineer IV

Code.org

Eric Burns

Head of AI Partner Strategy

Anthropic

Eric Chen

Director, Head of Engineering

SpruceID

Erik Selberg

CTO & Co-Founder

Wild Zebra

Erin Torgerson

Product Manager | Quality Engineering

Schemantic.io | Storytellers.ai

Ethan Shen

PhD Student | Research Intern

AI2 Research Institute

Fangchang Ma

Co-founder & CEO

Nuance Labs

Gaurav Oberoi

VP of Product

Docusign

Ghazaleh Saniee Monfared

Senior UX Researcher

Microsoft

Greg Young

Senior Director of Product Management

Collectors Universe

Henry Tan

Principal Engineer

Amazon

Hetu Kamisetty

Co-founder & CTO

Xaira Therapeutics

Himanshu Tayal

Head of Product | Generative Al for Developers

Amazon Web Services

Huong Ngo

Member of Technical Staff

Vercept

Ian Wong

Co-founder & CEO

Summation

Jared Roesch

Distinguished Engineer

NVIDIA

Jeff Kramer

Lead Applied Research Scientist

Microsoft

Jiayi (J.L.) Liang

Product Leader, Reality Labs Research

Meta

Joe Belfiore

Vice Chairman of the Board

Kahoot!

Joe Braidwood

Co-founder & CEO

Yara Al

Joe Heitzeberg

Founder

AI Tinkerers

John Alioto

Startup Evangelist

Google Cloud

Jonathan Tice

Founder & Fractional CRO

Fit to Scale

Joseph Sunga

Director of Product Management

Waabi

Julia Schwarz

Software Engineer | Co-founder of PlayScout

Justin Ith

Co-Founder & CEO

Alpyne Labs

Kai Chen

Engineering Executive / Technology Entrepreneur

Angel Investor

Keith Trnka

ML I Engineering Leadership | Co-founder

Stealth Startup

Kiana Ehsani

CEO and Co-founder

Vercept

Larry Arnstein

CTO & Co-Founder

Augmented AI Labs

Lee-Ming Zen

CTO

Yahoo

Leon Gatys

Machine Learning Researcher

Apple

Liza Ray

Head of Operations

Snythesize Bio

Luis Salazar

Co-Founder | Data Scienctist

Sobek.ai | Nucleate | AI4SP

Mariano Gabitto

Assistant Investigator

Allen Institute

Marius Ciocirlan

CEO and Co-founder

MarkOS

Mark Buckler

Founder & CEO

Soundry AI

Matt Deitke

AI Researcher

Meta

Matt Hocking

Chief Product Officer

Type

Matt Lerner

Executive Coach

Max Kleiman-Weiner

Assistant Professor

University of Washington

Meng Wang

CEO and Co-founder

Artly AI

Mike Fridgen

Venture Partner

Madrona

Mike Mortensen

Investor and Advisor, Enterprise AI

Mortensen Ventures

Milav Shah

Head of Engineering

Amazon

Mohammad Rastegari

CEO and Co-founder

Elastix.AI

Musa Ozdem

Principal Tech Lead

Carnival Corporation

Nikesh Parekh

CEO and Co-founder

Provn

Nimisha Sharath

Product Manager

Uber

Nirav Shah

Partner | Advisor

Physician on FIRE | Carbon Health

Oussame Elachqar

Co-founder

Oumi

Oyvind Tafjord

Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

Patrick Ellis

CTO & Co-Founder

Snapbar

Pierre Brunelle

CEO and Co-founder

Pixeltable

Ramya Jayaraman

Al Strategy Leader | CTO

OrthoBerry

Ranjay Krishna

Assistant Professor

University of Washington

Ricardo Martin

Researcher & Engineer / Co- Founder

SpAltial Al

Rob Gruhl

Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Nordstrom

Rodney Kinney

Prinicipal ML Engineer

Ai2 Research Institute

Ronan Le Bras

Research Scientist

Ai2 Research Institute

Ross Finman

CEO and Founder

Augmodo

Ryan Turner

Founder, CTO

Cielara Al

Sarah Andrabi

Co-founder & CTO

Liminary

Saranya Selvamani

Building AI x Commerce | Ex-Amazon

Stealth AI Startup

Satya Singh

Co-founder, CPO & President

Scispot.io

Scott Ransom

Senior Director, Industry and Innovation

Hand Erc

Selvan Senthivel

Chief Technologist/Advisor

GE Healthcare

Shihong Liu

Software Engineer

Amazon

Shubhkarman Singh

Machine Learning / Automation Engineer

Nokia

Siddhant Sahu

Product Management

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Somesh Khandelwal

Product and Systems Engineering Leader

Menlo Ventures | Stealth Startup

Sonu Aggarwal

Entrepreneur

Company

Srujan Jonnadula

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Steve Hall

Venture Partner

Cercano Management

Tanmay Gupta

Senior Research Assistant

Ai2 Research Institute

Trevor Crosby

Applied Machine Learning

John Deere, City University of Seattle

Tyler Shimko

Applied Al Scientist - Drug Discover

NVIDIA

Vijay Gaikwad

Staff ML Engineer

Meta

Woody Floyd

Vice President, Solutions R&D

Launch by NTT DATA

Xuchen Yao

CEO and Co-founderTitle

Seasalt.ai

Yangxue Deng

Senior Product Designer

Aspect Software

Yucheng Low

System Architect

Hugging Face

Zeeshan Zia

CEO and Co-founder

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