Sasha is an engineering leader with 25 years of Silicon Valley experience delivering innovative products.

Currently focused on transforming how GenAI products are built, he most recently led engineering at Tome, taking it from concept to launch and turning it into a leading AI-native platform. Before Tome, Sasha led Robinhood’s Clearing Engineering, scaling its systems to handle massive traffic spikes during the 2021 meme stock events. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Google, managing teams that built frameworks for Google’s high-traffic, high-impact applications. Earlier, he was one of the first engineers at Niantic, building key parts of Ingress and setting the stage for Pokémon GO.

Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Sasha moved to the US as a teenager with a suitcase and a dream, later earning an SB and MEng in computer science from MIT.

Naz specializes in AI/ML engineering and product management, with a track record of delivering impactful products through innovative technology.

She has founded and led teams that integrate AI research with engineering across a variety of domains, including content understanding, search, recommendations, and customer support. Her primary focus is on developing human-centered AI systems. Driven by this vision, she established the META initiative at Twitter, which focused on the ethics and transparency of predictive algorithms. Naz holds a PhD in deep learning and robotics, with research experience at NYU and the Max Planck Institute.

At Laminar, Dimitri brings his key experiences along with years of product development to help build tools uniquely tailored to provide great experiences.

Dimitri first explored integrating machine learning into user-facing products 10 years ago when he worked in the film industry, and he helped perfect the process at Tome and Deluxe.

Arnaud is a software engineer with a proven track record in delivering innovative solutions and thriving in both individual and managerial roles. He is skilled in mobile, web, AI, development, technical leadership, and project management, and has years of experience in building infrastructure for data ingestion and analysis.

Prior to joining Laminar, he was a founding engineer at Tome, engineering manager at Facebook, and software engineer at Uber.

JJ is a multidisciplinary designer and he has designed hundreds of lovable brands and products for deep tech startups, large institutions, and government agencies.

Before joining Laminar, he was a partner at Prime Movers Lab, founding designer at Spring Science, Tachyus, and OpenGov, and led design and innovation at Raytheon and GSA/18F. JJ holds a background in interaction design and currently serves as a lecturer at Pratt Institute.