AI Engineer World's Fair 2025

Ilan Bigio is a founding member of OpenAI’s Developer Experience team where he explores model capabilities, builds demos and developer tools, and shares his learnings through talks and docs. His work includes creating the AI phone ordering demo showcased at DevDay 2024, leading technical development for Swarm, the precursor to the Agents SDK, and contributing to Codex CLI. Prior to that, he was a Solutions Architect at OpenAI, partnering with companies like Cursor, Khan Academy, and Klarna to shape their AI products. Before OpenAI, he was a full-stack Software Engineer at Google, building for YouTube at scale. Ilan’s journey started as a hobby hacker, diving into operating systems and reverse engineering, before shifting to language models in 2020. He created projects like ShellAI—an open-source, AI-powered terminal assistant—and is passionate about sharing knowledge. With a multidisciplinary background spanning web development, AI/ML, and operating systems, he’s designed and taught courses at Brown and continues to share his expertise through in-depth technical OpenAI guides on topics like Function Calling, Latency Optimization, and Agent Orchestration.

Session

• Workshops Workshop
  Model-Maxxing: RFT, DPO, SFT (Fine-tuning with OpenAI)

  Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Workshops