Results
Final winners and finalists for AI Tinkerers - New York City Hackathon
Winners
Final Round
1st Place
Convo Compass
Team led by a Staff Software Engineer at HP (Humane), Cornell CS and Math; backend, Java Spring Boot, gRPC, cloud (AWS/GCP), ML data pipelines.
Juliana
2nd Place
OS Hunter
Team led by Fordham undergrad Jian Jin Chen — former AWS SDE intern, full‑stack (Python, FastAPI, React), ML/data, AWS/GCP, active GitHub.
Jian Jin
3rd Place
map-reduce-llm
Team led by a Staff AI Engineer at Starbridge.ai (MS CS, Georgia Tech), 6 years' experience in RL, few‑shot learning, PyTorch, and production ML tooling.
Ramesh
Prizes Offered
Prizes
1st: AirPods for each team member + $10K Redis credits + dinner with Redis startups team
2nd: AirPods + $5K Redis credits
3rd: $5K Redis credits