Astralite Heart / Mikhail CTO at Fictional (I made PonyDiffusion) ex-Alphabet (I built modern https://t.co/DWcwjCVFfo) ex-Waymo (Staff Research SWE) Building future of AI Characters at https://t.co/W2GZAhN4RS
Astralite Heart / Mikhail CTO at Fictional (I made PonyDiffusion) ex-Alphabet (I built modern https://t.co/DWcwjCVFfo) ex-Waymo (Staff Research SWE) Building future of AI Characters at https://t.co/W2GZAhN4RS
Career
CTO at Fictional from 2024 to Present in San Francisco, California, United StatesTechnical co-founder and CTO building a consumer platform for living multimodal AI characters. Fictional was founded in 2024 and backed by a16z Speedrun.
Research Staff SWE at Waymo from 2020 to 2024 in San Francisco, California, United StatesWorked for approximately four years on ML and generative-AI systems and helped launch Waymo’s San Francisco operations.
Tech Lead, modern YouTube.com at Google from 2012 to 2020Spent eight years at Google/YouTube and served as tech lead for the modern YouTube.com rebuild,.