Nik Caryotakis
Summary
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RockstarNik Caryotakis is an engineering lead building practical AI products that automate real-world chores—most notably systems that call insurance companies on users' behalf. With a Stanford BS and MS in Computer Science and a fast-moving career across startups and product roles, he blends hands-on software engineering with AI product management, shipping end-to-end solutions from prototype to production. His background includes accelerating bioinformatics tooling and clinical NLP at Verily and academic research that sped VCF processing tenfold, showing an aptitude for performance optimization in data-heavy systems. Comfortable leading small teams, he pairs rigorous engineering with a user-centered focus and the discipline of a former varsity NCAA champion. Less obvious: he repeatedly moves between deep technical implementation and product-facing roles, making him effective at turning experimental ML work into reliable customer-facing services.
2 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
artificial-intelligence10
python10
large-language-models10
voice-assistant10
voice10
ai10
llm9
machine-learning9
multimodal9
llama9
generative-ai9
mlops9
deep-learning9
openai9
llmops9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tensorzero/tensorzero
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
TensorZero is an open-source LLMOps platform that unifies an LLM gateway, observability, evaluation, optimization, and experimentation.
Contributions:1 review, 6 comments, 1 issue in 6 months
llmllmopsobservabilityaiartificial-intelligence
pipecat-ai/pipecat
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.
Contributions:1 review, 11 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
aimultimodalreal-timevoicevoice-assistant
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