Build with AI

No theory. No outdated playbooks. Battle-tested systems running in production today. Official n8n Expert Partner and Ambassador, Clay Creator, v0 Ambassador, and Mastra Agent Ambassador. Code merged into n8n core, one of a few hundred people who ever have. Expert Partner status is held by a small group globally. 16+ years of enterprise IT across banking, insurance, telecommunications, public sector, automotive and manufacturing in the DACH region and the UK. What gets built here are complete systems. Outbound engines, AI pipelines, and automation that removes manual work at scale. Full stack coverage across Clay, n8n, v0, Mastra and Claude means clients work with what is relevant right now. Frankfurt Clay Club host. W-JAX speaker.

Seasoned strategy consultant and AI coach with over a decade of experience leading operational and systems transformations across U.S. government agencies, startups, and nonprofits. As a Wharton MBA and former international partnerships lead, I’ve spent my career helping teams work smarter by building better systems and processes. I’ve taught dozens of professionals how to integrate AI into their daily work, saving hours each week, improving communication, and creating measurable impact. My coaching blends strategy, structure, and hands-on learning to make AI practical, approachable, and directly tied to career growth.

If you're interested in a pragmatic and hands-on approach for mastering AI agents and automation you came to the right place! I haven't written a single line of code since April 2025, yet I shipped more code than ever thanks to AI agents and automation. I regularly run 8-10 AI agents in parallel including having AI agents that help me manage other AI agents. I'm deeply immersed in the agentic AI phenomenon. I have worked for a year and 8 months for Invisible Platforms - a startup that developed an innovative hierarchical agentic AI engine - that was later acquired by Perplexity. I'm currently s member of the agentic AI infra team at Perplexity. On the side I also built my own agentic AI framework from scratch in Python and published a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Multi-Agent-Systems-Using-MCP/dp/1806116472 I also write a regular blog on Medium. Check out my long running series: Claude Code - Deep Dive: https://medium.com/@the.gigi/list/claude-code-deep-dive-5f842373dcaa

Welcome to my profile! I’m the Head of GMs at Leland and a former consultant at Boston Consulting Group. I work on growth and operations and spend much of my time building automation that removes manual work from our team’s day-to-day processes. At Leland, I built an AI-powered email pipeline that fully manages inbound messages. The system classifies emails, drafts replies, and routes them to the right teammates through Slack. I’ve also helped design automated sales workflows that support lead qualification and customer communication for our bootcamp business. My perspective comes from building these systems as a non-technical operator. If you’re a founder or business professional who wants to start using tools like Claude and workflow automation platforms to reduce manual work, I’d be happy to share what I’ve learned.

I’m the founder an AI consulting and implementation firm that helps businesses identify where AI can create real value and then builds the systems to make it happen. I work directly with business owners and teams to diagnose operational problems and turn the right opportunities into working agents, automations, applications, and integrated workflows. I’ve built and shipped AI systems across a variety of industries: • A vision AI tool that reduced quote times aerospace maintenance and repair • Automated sales and marketing outreach that's generated a millions in revenue pipeline • Lead intake, qualification, and responder agents in real estate, healthcare, and home services • System-wide agentic systems that span CRM, Project Management, and accounting • Model training for a music education technology startup I’ve also helped teams evaluate models, prototype new AI products, and turn ideas that started on a whiteboard into systems running in production. My perspective is also shaped by 15 years of helping organizations adopt new processes and technology. That’s why I tend to start with how the business actually works rather than with an AI tool. The technology matters, but the real test is whether the solution improves the business and whether the people doing the work actually use it.

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 7+ years building production AI systems that serve thousands of users daily. I've built AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM-powered products from scratch, including systems that reduced sales prep time by 70% and an AI assistant serving 3,000+ sellers. I hold multiple patents in AI/ML. I don't just teach AI concepts. I build and ship AI systems every day. I coach engineers, PMs, and builders who want to go beyond surface-level prompting and actually build with tools like Claude Code, LangChain, MCP servers, and vector databases. Whether you want to become the AI person on your team or ship your first AI-powered product, I'll help you get there with battle-tested patterns from real production systems.

My goal is to help people learn how to build with AI - not just talk about it. At my current company, I was tasked with figuring out how AI can augment our operations so our people can deliver more value, faster. I mapped workflows across every department, identified where the manual lift was highest, and built and deployed AI agents to handle that work. It's now running. That process - going from basic AI chatbot tools to working AI agents across a real business - is exactly what I coach on. The professionals who learn to build with these tools now will have an enormous edge. And you don't need to be in a senior role or have a technical background to get started. You just need to know where to look and how to think about the problem. My coaching is for ambitious professionals who want to get ahead of the curve - whether you're looking to stand out in your current role, make yourself indispensable in a job search, or just figure out where to start. We'll identify the highest-impact opportunities in your world and get you from curious to actually building.

Move beyond following tutorials and learn to build an AI application you can explain. I help learners and developers turn a focused idea into a manageable prototype, from choosing the right approach to testing its behavior. We can work on prompting, document-based assistants with RAG, tool-using agents, and practical checks for accuracy and failure cases. Bring your idea or a small prototype; we will choose one clear next step together. I bring 10 years of experience across AI research and education, a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and experience as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. I am an NVIDIA DLI Certified Instructor for Building Agentic AI Applications with LLMs and a University Ambassador. Sessions combine explanations, guided implementation, and feedback on your own work. Use public or synthetic examples and code you are allowed to share. This is personalized coaching, not done-for-you development or a promise of a production-ready system.

As a founder of Relay and a former Lead Product Manager at Deel, I have firsthand experience in leveraging AI to drive innovation and growth. Whether you're looking to break into AI-driven roles or enhance your product management skills, I'm here to guide you. Let's connect and chart your path to success!

I help people understand, build, and use AI in practical ways. Whether you’re building an AI product, improving your workflow, exploring automation, preparing for AI/data roles, or figuring out how AI applies to your business, I can help you turn broad ideas into clear next steps. I’ve worked on technology across very different environments: the Olympic Games, startups, and AI implementations for real businesses. I’ve scoped projects, built tools, designed workflows, evaluated business cases, worked with technical infrastructure, and used AI hands-on across products, data, automation, LLMs, prompts, agents, and operations. My goal is to make AI feel less overwhelming and more useful. I’ll meet you where you are and help you move forward with more clarity, confidence, and practical judgment.