Vikram Pawar
Claude Community Ambassador | Founder, Claude Code Central London, cccl.ai
AI Tech Lead at Resonate. Built CCCL from scratch — 1000+ registrations, 3 events, and counting.
16+ years running RUMQ — now exclusively AI & Claude Code evangelism. O'Reilly Architecture Kata winner. Daily Claude Code power user. 75+ blog posts on AI-assisted development.
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"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program" — Milton Friedman"
...he said government program, but he clearly meant my codebase.
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Edwin Trebels
Founder | LangOptima
21 years building growth programs: translation, media, marketing
A new program, roughly every 18 months
Now: semantic knowledge graphs�(hypergraph architecture) for large organisations
Capturing meaning, not just data
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" — T.S. Eliot
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Francesco Redente
Audio Production | Sound Design |Creative Developer
23+ years in the audio industry, including 14 years teaching Audio Production at university (BA/BSc). Past decade worked/collaborating on procedural/ML/AI projects for Massive Attack, Google, MicTic, The Barbican, The V&A and Nottingham University Mixed Reality Lab.
Last year I have worked for AI dubbing and Voice Synthesis startups Papercup, Adapt and MetaVoice. Currently working as a Senior Expert and OR at Mercor to improve models for a major AI lab.
I run my own electronic record label [PRVT RNDR], and using Claude Code I have build C++/JUCE VST/AU plugins, Python web-based audio analysis tools, and Eurorack C++ audio systems for the Bela platform.
""My Italian family still think I play guitar for a living.... for the record, I love guitars but never owned one."
Ibrahim Malik
Founder · Actionable Sports Intelligence Platform
Co-Host · Europe's Largest MLOps Community
About Me
ML/AI Engineer building and deploying AI systems
Claude Code practitioner and advocate for production best practices
Sports AI building sports data tools for real decisions
Side project using AI to end dog homelessness
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it "
— Alan Kay
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Avdhesh Singh Chouhan
Principal AI Architect
Designing intelligence systems that scale, spanning multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and agentic reasoning. Leading the development of Donnie, a persistent knowledge platform that turns scattered enterprise data into compounding strategic assets for AI memory.�
Presenting DevFleet today, an open-source platform where autonomous Claude Code agents pick up coding missions, work in isolated environments, and coordinate through dependencies, like a dev team that never sleeps.
“AI won’t replace programmers… but it will replace the excuses humans make.”
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Life was peaceful before the �“Attention Is All You Need” �paper dropped…
Talha Sheikh
AI Engineer| Centre of Excellence @ Checkout
Avid AI enthusiast and builder. Introduced and championed Claude Code within Checkout (global payments) — now a daily power user & POC master..
Right now building a coding harness, a deterministic framework that allows AI to not write spaghetti code with 500 tests of an unusable application
“AI is the new electricity.” – Andrew Ng
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Me doing “productive” gaming. Playing CyberPunk 2077 on my Xbox while Claude builds me my app
Ben Butterworth
Working at a stealth startup during the day.
Building DuckType at night.
Claude Code?... day and night.
Builder | Stealth Startup
"I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." — Dario Amodei in March 2025
LinkedIn^ or x.com/uxduck
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Ethan Horsfall
Founder | Dirac Trading Group
Founder at Dirac Trading Group. We’re building the world’s first market maker for excess stock! (Not financial stock, things like shoes, pens and chocolates).
�Claude code addict? I use it to handle my family’s birthday presents, as a CRM, handle my hiring, our recent fundraising, my inbox, for assisting with pitches, logging my screentime, as a reading assistant, and of course for coding. Have two pro subscriptions (rip my bank balance)
“Happy to help! Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print—it’s best to delve into the other options! Hope that helps!” - George Orwell’s first rule of writing, in ‘Politics and the English Language’
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Me about to commit a 10,000 line vibe coded PR directly to main without CI/CD. CTO strapped to my back.
Connor Adams
AI & Software Engineer | connoradams.co.uk
10+ years as a software engineer, degree in mathematics�Worked in banking, startups and fintech�Quit full time employment this year to try new things #yolo�Currently freelancing and consulting in software and AI
Fun fax: Been to 50+ countries including DPRK, speak French
Come chat to me about your tmux and terminal setup 🤓
"Alright Dave?" — Trigger
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Libby Swan
CEO & Co-Founder | Axioned ("actioned")
Axioned partners with teams responsible for business-critical digital platforms — helping them build, run, and evolve these platforms without expanding their internal engineering team.
Currently scaling an AI-native dev stack (Claude Code, agents.md, shared skills repos, MCPs) across the full team — engineering and non-engineering.
"Claude suggested a better quote. This isn't it."
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I help businesses implement AI for Revenue Generation
AI is making millionaires! I’m trying to be one of them. Been running Kwikstream Solutions for 2 years winning Business Automation Specialist 2025. I am also completing a degree apprenticeship in Data Science where I won Tech Apprentice of the year 2025.
Not too sure how I got here I keep building and it keeps working. Always open for a chat Especially if theres free pizza involved
“Automate everything !! (or don't I’m not your dad)
Efan Mutembo
Breast health monitoring from home. �To support pre-screening for early breast cancer detection.�Grant-funded to-date.��👩🏻💻 Background in Design Engineering. �Previously worked in AI-consultancy for fortune 500 clients as a Design Strategist.�
�👀 Scouting for individuals to take Dotplot from an MVP stage to a clinically regulated product by 2027!
“Pivoting is important but pivoting without backing is distraction ” 🚀� - An advisor!
Shefali Bohra
Co-Founder & CEO @ Dotplot
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Sandi
AI Product Lead | Co-founder | Open-Source Builder
Built enterprise AI at a UK specialist bank - shipped underwriting and complaints AI to production, Co-founded AI compliance startup - (Google AI First Accelerator, NVIDIA Inception). Former VP Product at a global card processor (47 countries, 100+ fintechs). Head of Lending (2M+ customers). Earlier: HSBC, RBC, Discover.
Open-Source (MIT) Compliance OS on Claude
A suite of MIT-licensed compliance plugins - starting with KYC Analyst (shipped), then Compliance Mailroom, SAR Narrative Generator, MLRO Report Generator, Questionnaire Analyst, and Policy Drafter. Plus MCP connectors for Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, Snowflake, Salesforce & more.
Also shipped: WhtrBT (trust scanner for AI-generated code)
"The future isn't just about automation, it's about democratization of intelligence, much like how the internet democratized information - Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks)"
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Felix Brockmeier
Ex-Founder - Currently thinking about founding again
Worked on synthetic data generation for post-training & voice AI agents
"I replaced your $50k/year enterprise suite with a prompt and an API call — and I didn't even need a sales demo." - CC
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Talk to me if you are in the process of founding :)
5 still missing: Edwin, Khyara, Kir, Nicholas, Shefali.
Shashwat Verma
Founder & CEO | AAAI Solutions
Founder of AAAI Solutions, building Swiftly — an AI platform that enables people to search, generate, and edit videos through simple prompts and conversation.�
Previously worked in machine learning and risk management, developing big data models at Citibank and leading AI-driven risk initiatives at Drip Capital.�
Please don’t ask him: “How did you go from stopping fraud to editing videos with AI?”
“For the first time in history, AI makes it possible to go 10× faster — in the wrong direction”
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Khyara Ranaweera
We're building one of the UK's first symbiotic intelligence studios; an AI-native venture studio where every company we create makes the next one smarter.
Purpose isn't a layer we add at the end.
It's architecture.
Women-founded, built with intention, designed to compound.
CMO | 21 Futures
"Most AI companies are built fast. Very few are built with intention."
linkedin.com/in/ckhyara
Founder, SpinnerAI - A Home for Your Agents�Co-Organiser, London PyTorch / London AI Meetup groups
Kir Zharov
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My 10-year engineering journey:�Frontend → Full Stack → Lead → Machine Learning Operations → DevOps → MLOPs (again) → Founder (⭐️)
SpinnerAI is an Agent Platform for creating, managing, and monitoring teams of agents at scale, with a proper access control and guardrails (spinnerai.com).
Worked on infrastructure for the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates for issuing the Digital Dirham.
Built a machine learning platform at Flo Health (flo.health) as a Senior MLOps Engineer, which is serving 80 million monthly active users.
Recently released one of the products under the SpinnerAI Platform:�- SpinnerAI Build is a Personal Cloud workspace to run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, and other agents from anywhere.
spinner.build