AI Engineers May Tech Talk w/ Harmonic, Instacart, Hebbia, & Noemica
🤖 New York AI Engineers Tech Talk — May Edition
Welcome to the monthly NYC AI Engineers Tech Talk, a recurring gathering built exclusively around the craft of AI engineering. Whether you're a veteran ML engineer or a fullstack developer exploring the world of LLMs, this is a high-signal space designed to go deep on real projects, genuine technical hurdles, and the solutions that actually work. No fluff — just substance, engineered by engineers for engineers.
🎤 This Month's Speakers & Talks
🔁 Yesh Chandiramani — AI Engineer @ Harmonic
Building Reliable AI Agents with Feedback Loops
Current models are impressive — but without the right feedback architecture, they consistently fall short. Yesh will pull back the curtain on how Harmonic is developing Scout, an AI assistant tackling notoriously hard-to-evaluate domains like market mapping and investor search, and what it genuinely takes to design feedback loops that move the needle on output quality.
🔍 Ahsaas Bajaj — Senior ML Engineer @ Instacart
Catching Model Failures Before They Ship
Most AI systems fail quietly — and that's the problem. Ahsaas dives into AI-powered evaluation pipelines that surface hidden regressions, reduce dependence on slow human labeling, and dramatically accelerate iteration cycles.
🏗️ David Osemwegie — Member of Technical Staff @ Hebbia
Inside Enterprise-Grade Coding Agents
Shipping coding agents to production is a different beast entirely. David breaks down the architecture, security considerations, and design philosophy behind Hebbia's background agent — and shares how teams are using it in the real world today.
🧠 Sebastian Sosa — Founder @ Noemica
Why Most AI Agents Are Built Wrong (and How to Fix Them)
Everyone is building agents. Far fewer are building them correctly. Sebastian delivers a sharp, practical teardown of the most common mistakes in agent design, plus battle-tested patterns drawn from top teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to make agents that actually perform.
📋 Event Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 6:00 – 6:20 PM | 🍕🍺 Networking with pizza, beer & wine (courtesy of Fonzi AI) |
| 6:20 – 6:25 PM | 🎙️ Opening remarks |
| 6:25 – 6:55 PM | 💡 Two 10-min Tech Talks + 5-min Q&A each |
| 6:55 – 7:15 PM | 🤝 Meet the speakers |
| 7:15 – 7:45 PM | 💡 Two more 10-min Tech Talks + 5-min Q&A each |
| 7:45 – 8:30 PM | 🤝 Meet the speakers (continued) |
👥 Who Will Be in the Room?
Expect a crowd of software developers, data scientists, AI engineers, and technical founders — all at the cutting edge of applied AI. It's a casual yet intellectually dense environment, perfect for picking up something new and connecting with peers shaping the NYC AI engineering scene.
🏢 About the Host: Fonzi AI
Fonzi is a recruiting platform laser-focused on product and AI engineering talent in NYC and SF, with 75+ open roles spanning some of the most exciting startups in the city.
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