Jan Carbonell
Chief AI Officer at openwork (YC P26)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Carbonell is a Chief AI Officer and serial founder with nine years of experience building AI-first products and teams across the Bay Area and Europe. He’s shipped startups and YC-backed projects that span developer tooling, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows—most recently leading openwork to open-source Claude cowork and create team-focused LLM automation. A hands-on engineer with graduate-level CS training from Cornell and Technion, Jan combines product instincts (from founding and exiting two companies) with deep ML deployment experience gained at companies like SciPhi and krea.ai. Originally from Barcelona and forged in hackathons, he brings curiosity and a tinkerer’s mentality—starting with Lego and evolving into pragmatic AI systems that help teams ship. Not obvious from titles: he founded the world’s first AI engineer bootcamp, achieving a 100% hiring rate for its graduates, which reflects his emphasis on practical skills and developer enablement.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Information and Information Systems, Master of Science - MS, Applied Information and Information Systems at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences at Cornell UniversityUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaCelera Talent, Celera Talent at Celera
English, Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (15)
artificial-intelligence10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
large-language-models10
python10
question-answering10
env9
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
campus4
localize3
tensorflow2
neural-network2
certification1
open-source1
java1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Strive-School/ai_setup
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
all the env + tools you need to be ready for AI development
Contributions:47 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
envdeep-learningneedmachine-learning
jcllobet/DL_pytorch
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
here it goes
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
python-3pythonpython3
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