Bruno Bornsztein
Director Of Engineering at InfluenceKit
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBruno Bornsztein is a product-minded engineering leader and serial founder with 18 years of experience building web and AI platforms from idea to production. Currently Director of Engineering at OfferLab and founder of InfluenceKit, he blends hands-on backend work—especially integrations and data connectors for LLM tooling—with product strategy and developer experience. His open-source contributions span full-stack scraping and data-loading projects (notably improvements to image/video extraction in pismo and data readers/loaders for LlamaIndex and LlamaHub), reflecting a knack for making messy external data reliably consumable. He has repeatedly shipped infrastructure that helps creators and AI products scale, and brings a journalist’s eye for clarity to technical design and API ergonomics. Based in Saint Paul, MN, Bruno pairs entrepreneurial grit from running companies since 2006 with modern AI systems experience gained most recently at Klu.ai.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyB.A. Journalism, B.A. Journalism at University of Minnesota
Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
26reputation
458reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (31)
application-framework10
apim10
data-connector10
python10
testing10
app-framework10
beautifulsoup10
data-parsing10
webscraping10
ruby10
api10
data-connectors10
http-request10
nokogiri10
web-framework10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bborn/communityengine
Mar 2008 - Apr 2021
Adds basic social networking capabilities to your existing application, including users, blogs, photos, clippings, favorites, and more.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1399 commits, 16 PRs, 24 pushes in 13 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily focused on fixing bugs within the application and modifying the codebase to handle core backend logic. They addressed routing issues within the `routes.rb` file and made updates to the `tag.rb` file which suggests a focus on the site's tagging functionality. The commits indicate this user worked on default configurations (e.g., `app.yml`) and CSS, likely with the intent of styling or modifying existing elements rather than creating net new features.
social-networknetworkingsocial-networkingcapabilitiesphotos
peterc/pismo
Mar 2011 - Nov 2012
Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily worked on improving the image scraping algorithm within the `pismo` repository. Their contributions included enhancements to the image extraction process, such as improved logic for identifying and retrieving images. They also implemented features related to video embedding and object scraping. Furthermore, the user addressed and fixed bugs, and added tests to ensure the reliability of the image extraction functionality.
readablemetadataextractspiicreative-commons
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.