Challenge Everything
Embrace change and always improve
- Never settle for the status quo
- Seek feedback to improve yourself
- Minimize complexity and simplify where possible
Company
Five years of AI in production
Founders who have built together for ten years. Five years of ZenML, running AI in production for some of the world's best companies. Now the same team builds Kitaru and our AI engineers.
Our company
Our founders have built together for ten years, and ZenML has been their company for five. In that time we have worked with some of the world's best companies to run AI in production: orchestrating pipelines and agents, training and fine-tuning models, and now testing agents with Kitaru and our AI engineers. Everything we build starts open source. We're a remote team with an office in Munich.
Empathize
Understand your peers and stay candid
- Everyone deserves your patience
- Listen, understand, acknowledge and assist
- Communicate thoughts for the betterment of the company & peers
Be Efficient
Fail fast and learn even faster
- Set goals and iterate approach
- Don't do everything, do what needs to be done
- Failure is no sign of weakness - only not learning from it is
Enable Others
Enable and motivate others to bring their A-game
- Overcome bias, utilize diversity
- Support others taking risks and collaborate
- Distribute relevant information proactively
Be Honest
Provide candid feedback and own your actions
- Give feedback early, often, and candidly
- Take responsibility for failures transparently and proactively
- Don't judge the failures of others - aid in learning from them
Meet the team
Adam Probst
Co-founder
- Head of Life-Life-Balance.
- Sailing yacht office facility manager.
- California classic car importer in charge.
Hamza Tahir
Co-founder
- Has non-artificial intelligence.
- Musicaly impaired (redeems himself by playing guitar).
- Loves to cook (but eating is preferred).
Viola Nuener
Chief of Staff
- Grows vegetables but still hasn't figured out how to debug them
- Loves structure so much that even her chaos is organized
- Will explain anything in one minute - or 20, if you let her
Lennart Szy
Founder's Associate
- Plans trips around local food, then pretends the sightseeing was intentional
- Slowly becoming fluent in Spanish, automations, and Munich ski logistics
- Head of Networking
Barış Can Durak
Founding Software Engineer
- VP caffeination
- Let the tensors hit the flow
- Sap dessert enthusiast
Alex Strick van Linschoten
Founding DevEx Engineer
- Lives for 100+ random character passwords.
- Feeder of cats.
- Loves learning (human) languages.
Alexej Penner
Founding Solutions Engineer
- Amateur Squirrel Foster Parent.
- Avid watcher of French Cooking Shows (understanding every fifth word).
- Airplane- and Hospital food aficionado.
Amit Vikram Raj
Solution Engineer
- Lives life in dark mode
- Loves coffee and long walks
- Cleans his desk every day
Michael Schuster
Founding Software Engineer
- Looking for a coworking space in the mountains.
- Will beat you in chess (unless you’re good at chess).
- Loves spicy food.
Stefan Nica
Founding Software Engineer
- Lurks in the dark side of the theme space.
- Has on occasion been seen using his neural net.
- Will automate himself out of existence.
Iason Andriopoulos
Senior Software Engineer
- Senior engineer, rookie dad
- Scales systems, not himself
- Fuel him with coffee or beer to pause the design pattern monologues
Safoine El Khabich
Founding DevEx Engineer
- Exploring tech through wormholes.
- Tidy laptop, messy desktop is my life slogan.
- Loves '3 plus mixte flavors' food.
Julian Karl
Founding Frontend Engineer
- is hyped about a new JS-Framework every week
- doesn't turn coffee into code
Zuri Negrín
Founding Product Designer
- Design system fanatic
- Perpetual learner and researcher, soaking up knowledge daily
- Roller coaster adrenaline enthusiast
Tanish Chowdhary
Marketing
- Marketing geek. Will read a 42-tweet thread at 2am "for research."
- Knows lyrics to 100+ songs. Should not be allowed near a microphone though.
- F1 enthusiast. Measures life decisions in pit-stop efficiency.
Bart Mikolajczuk
Engineering
- Discovers a new hobby roughly every six months.
- Passionate about vanlife & overlanding.
- Plays basketball — just don't ask him to shoot threes.
AI orchestration,
on the infra you choose
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