Recognition

Meet the honorees.

A living record of the people part of the OSS4AI community whose work, ideas, and generosity are shaping AI innovation and technology.

STARs

Standout Technology Achievement Recognition

Vinita Ananth

Bio: Vinita Ananth is the VP of Product and GTM Leader at Nebius, an AI infrastructure company focusing on large-scale GPU compute for training and inference. Prior to this, she spent over four years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the Director of Artificial Intelligence, where she had full P&L accountability for the AI/ML portfolio, including SageMaker and Bedrock. Vinita's extensive executive background also includes serving as Senior Director at Microsoft Azure—where she scaled their Specialized Workloads business into a multi-billion dollar portfolio—as well as leading product strategy at Chef Software and Apptio.
Role: VP of Product
Company: Nebius

Gabriela de Queiroz

Bio: Gabriela de Queiroz is a prominent data science leader, professor, and community builder, widely recognized as the founder of R-Ladies—a global community that she scaled to over 150,000 members across 65 countries—and AI Inclusive. She recently served as the Director of AI for Microsoft for Startups and was previously the Chief Data Scientist of AI Strategy and Innovation at IBM, where she also led key open-source engineering teams contributing to TensorFlow and PyTorch. In addition to her executive and community work, Gabriela is a graduate professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and serves as a venture partner and angel investor.

Jason Lopatecki

Bio: Jason Lopatecki is the Founder and CEO of Arize AI, a market-leading AI engineering platform focused on the observability, evaluation, and development of AI agents. Prior to launching Arize, he was the co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer at TubeMogul, where he helped scale the programmatic video company through an IPO and its eventual acquisition by Adobe. Following the acquisition, Jason served as the Senior Director of Innovation and PTV for Adobe Advertising.
Role: CEO
Company: Arize

Atai Barkai

Bio: Atai Barkai is the Co-Founder and CEO of CopilotKit, a platform building the infrastructure to integrate AI directly into application user interfaces. Prior to this, he founded tawkitAI, where he built an early LLM-powered media database and scaled an AI podcast assistant. Atai’s technical background also includes leading media infrastructure projects at Meta and serving as a senior software engineer at Doximity.
Role: CEO
Company: CopilotKit

Sam Wen

Bio: Sam Wen is a seasoned entrepreneur, executive, and investor, best known as a cofounder of Square, where he helped develop the company's initial card swipe algorithm and early iOS applications. He recently spent nearly twelve years at Green Visor Capital, moving from Entrepreneur in Residence to General Partner. Throughout his diverse career, Sam has also stepped into critical leadership roles as a founder, CTO, and interim CEO across various fintech and technology companies.

Lindsey Allen

Bio: Lindsey Allen is an accomplished AI and data platform executive, she currently serves as the Chief Product Officer at Boson AI. Prior to this role, she spent three decades at Microsoft, most recently as General Manager for Azure Databricks, where she scaled the strategic platform to 45 regions and doubled its revenue.
Role: Chief Product Officer
Company: Boson AI

Denny Lee

Bio: Denny Lee is a long-time open source veteran and early hire at Databricks with standout experience contributing to Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog. He is also a co-author of Learning Spark (2nd Edition) and Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide. His contributions make him one of the most prolific technologists in Data and AI.
Role: PM Director, Startups and Ecosystems
Company: Databricks

Pioneers

Technologists moving the field forward through significant contribution

Tony Chang

Bio: Tony Chang is the Co-Founder and CTO of InsForge, a platform focused on building the backend infrastructure for agentic engineering. Prior to founding his startup, he worked as a software engineer at Databricks on the Networking Connectivity and Monitoring team. An avid learner, Tony possesses deep technical expertise spanning Kubernetes, cloud networking, and major cloud ecosystems like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Role: CTO
Company: Insforge

Gonçalo (G) Martins Ribeiro

Bio: Gonçalo Martins Ribeiro is a Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer at KPMG US, where he leads the Synthetic Data Center of Excellence. He previously spent over seven years as the Co-Founder and CEO of YData, an AI data quality platform that was acquired by KPMG in late 2025. Gonçalo is also an active angel investor and mentor, advising responsible AI initiatives at AI 2030 and guiding early-stage startups through Techstars.
Role: Senior Director
Company: KPMG

Fabiana Clemente

Bio: Fabiana Clemente is a Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer at KPMG US, where she serves as the technical lead for the Synthetic Data Center of Excellence. She is also the co-founder and CTO of YData, leading a global team to productize generative models, synthetic data pipelines, and privacy-preserving RAG architectures. Additionally, Fabiana champions industry standards and ethics as a member of the Forbes Technology Council and the Center for Responsible AI.
Role: Senior Director
Company: KPMG

Conor Bronsdon

Bio: Conor Bronsdon is the Technical Ecosystem Lead at Modular, where he heads the developer relations and community teams. He is also the creator and host of the Chain of Thought podcast, an industry-leading show featuring top executives and builders in the AI space. Previously, Conor served as a growth and marketing executive at Galileo and LinearB, helping scale both companies through critical product launches and rapid revenue growth.
Role: Modular
Company: Technical Ecosystem Lead

Andrew Hoh

Bio: Andrew Hoh is a Director of Product Management at Meta and the Co-Founder of LastMile AI. Prior to this, he managed Meta's machine learning platform and led ML product teams at Airbnb. He also spent nearly four years at Microsoft as a founding product manager for Azure Cosmos DB.
Role: Meta
Company: Director of Product Management

Seema Phalke Jadav

Bio: Seema Phalke Jadav is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, where she has spent nearly five years developing advanced software solutions. Prior to NVIDIA, she had a distinguished tenure at IBM and IBM Canada, serving as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect leading mobile application development. Her extensive technical background also spans mobile and firmware development, including architecting location-based Android applications and smartphone RFID accessories.
Role: NVIDIA
Company: Senior Software Engineer

Sanjay Kurra

Bio: Sajay Kurra is the Director of AI Traffic Engineering at Coupang, where he leads a global AI infrastructure organization across the US, Korea, and India. He joined Coupang as a founding engineer of the AI Infrastructure team, scaling high-performance GPU systems and ML Ops platforms to enterprise scale. Prior to Coupang, Sajay spent over five years at GE Healthcare, specializing in secure cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, and multi-cloud monitoring.
Role: Coupang
Company: Director of AI Traffic Engineering

Siddarth Kodwani

Bio: Siddarth Kodwani is a Tech Lead at DoorDash, where he builds infrastructure for AI agents. He previously designed machine learning platforms for autonomous vehicles at Zoox and spent nearly six years at Amazon optimizing personalization models for Prime Video. Siddarth also serves as a Resident Expert at the AI2 Incubator in Seattle.
Role: DoorDash
Company: Tech Lead

Cory Waddingham

Bio: Cory Waddingham is the Head of Developer Relations at Guild AI, where he leads community and ecosystem strategy to help teams deploy and govern AI agents. Previously, he supported enterprise AI adoption at LangChain and spent over three years at Pinecone, launching their generative AI partner integration program and scaling customer support. Cory's career spans over seven years of leadership in developer relations, partner engineering, and customer success across major database and AI platforms.
Role: Head of Developer Relations
Company: Guild AI

Homer Wang

Bio: Homer Wang is the Head of Product at TinyFish, a startup backing web infrastructure for AI agents with $47 million in Series A funding. Previously, he worked at Salesforce and Tableau, where he co-created Agentforce Tableau and helped launch the company's first generative AI applications. An innovative leader, Homer has spent his career building advanced AI and data products used by hundreds of thousands of people globally.
Role: Head of Product
Company: TinyFish

Madhvi Sharma

Bio: Madhvi Sharma is a Senior Engineering Manager at Oracle with over seven years of experience at the company. She currently leads the development of a production-grade AI agents platform designed to deliver population health intelligence at scale. Previously, Madhvi spent a decade building critical cloud networking services and automation tools at both Oracle and IBM.
Role: Senior Engineering Manager
Company: Oracle

Catalysts

Early career professionals pushing boundaries of innovation

Abby Tse

Bio: Abby Tse is a member of the PyData Strategic Committee and the Chair of PyData NYC, where she helps shape global strategy for a community of over 200,000 members. She recently spent nearly five years as a Senior Software Engineer at IBM, specializing in conversational AI, generative AI, and enterprise search systems. Prior to her work in AI, Abby began her software engineering career at Barclays, working in Equities Sales Trading.

Allie Gu

Bio: Allie Gu is a Research Scientist at Fleet AI, specializing in open reinforcement learning post-training. Previously, she was a Member of Technical Staff at xAI, where she worked on alignment for Grok and optimized the X ranking algorithm. Allie started her career as the first AI hire at Smith & Associates, designing an advanced semiconductor anomaly detection system.
Role: Fleet AI
Company: Research Scientist