Nik Caryotakis
Engineering Lead at Overtone
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNik 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.
1 year of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Menlo-Atherton High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (25)
voice-assistant10
voice10
artificial-intelligence9
python9
llm9
large-language-models9
machine-learning9
ai9
generative-ai9
deep-learning9
openai9
anthropic9
gpt9
rust9
genai8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tensorzero/tensorzero
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
TensorZero creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM applications — turning production data into smarter, faster, and cheaper models.
Contributions:1 review, 6 comments, 1 issue in 6 months
aiai-engineeringanthropicartificial-intelligencedeep-learning
pipecat-ai/pipecat
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI
Contributions:1 review, 11 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
aichatbot-frameworkchatbotsreal-timevoice
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