AI builder · Investor · Coach
Auriel
I build frontier AI products, back early-stage founders, and help leaders navigate the AI era.
Google DeepMind · Google Brain · YC W20 · Harvard CS
What I do
Frontier AI products
Product lead on autonomous agents, self-coding systems and generative AI at scale. Did Gemini, self-evolving systems and RL and Post Training research at Google DeepMind, built ML systems that fed Search, Pixel and Waymo; got a Cannes Lion for authentic representation in imaging @Google Brain; published at NeurIPS etc
Early-stage AI, invested and advised
Angel checks and product, go-to-market and AI-landscape advice for founders. A practitioner lens: YC founder, builder at the leading labs. I especially like to help student founders/first time founders since I did YC when I was in college and my Harvard Computer Science degree helped me build a lasting interest in how intelligent systems perceive and make sense of the world.
Executive AI coaching
Coaching Fortune 500 leaders through AI transformation, from personal AI stacks to leadership workshops. Host of AI founder dinners and the Females in Tech Tea Party series.
Writing · RL Fundamentals Mini-Series
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You’ve Never Spent Real Time with Your Model and We Can ALL Tell
A no-BS guide for startups post-training their own models
Stop Shipping Low-Quality Harnesses and Calling It an “Environment”
Why a flaky harness quietly poisons your gradients
Your Rubric Was Written by Someone Who Has Never Done the Job
Why your evals are measuring the wrong thing
Your Tasks Are Not Grounded in Economic Reality
Ground your task design in what actually moves the needle
Your Data Screams “This Is a Simulation”
Models detect fake environments and the behavior degrades fast
The full series lives at howtoposttrain.com.
Want to connect? I'm always open to conversations with founders, operators, and executives building at the frontier.
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