Applied AI Educator with 140k+ LinkedIn followers
Founder at Break Into Data (30k+ Data and AI professionals)
DataCamp Instructor - RAG course ( 3,000+ learners)
Technical content creator - Podcast Host for technical founders
Meri transformed a simple accountability group into \"Break Into Data\" community, now a 30k+ member community helping professionals break into AI and Data careers. Her workshops on AI and ML reached 11k+ attendees in 2024 alone, and her DataCamp RAG course earned 487+ five-star reviews.
The numbers speak: 140k LinkedIn followers, 2,200+ active Discord members, and a thriving newsletter with data professionals from Big Tech and high-growth startups.
Senior Full Stack AI Engineer & Instructor
Founder at CatswithBats.com
LangChain Ambassador (2024)
Angel Investor in YC-backed startups
Hai scaled AI Tinkerers Ottawa from 30 members to Canada's largest AI developer community (800+ members) in under a year. His model is now being replicated globally in 80+ cities. Ottawa Business Journal featured it as a \"grassroots phenomenon\" exclusively for elite AI builders.
Hai advises and invests in top-tier YC-backed AI startups on production-ready systems:
As a LangChain Python contributor, he built one of the first viral projects combining LLMs with web scraping, establishing him as an early innovator in the field.
I'm Dex, and I'm hacking on coding agent maxxing at HumanLayer, building the best way to accelerate AI-native dev for complex tasks in brownfield and legacy codebases.
Before this I was working on AI Agents that managed SQL warehouses, and did a long stint at replicated.com helping the worlds best software teams deliver Kubernetes apps into customer environments.
I've been coding since 17, when I built tools for NASA researchers to navigate the south pole of the moon. Enjoyer of tacos and burpees (not necessarily in that order)
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His mentorship has helped various students build real-time products & careers in the Agentic AI PM space.
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