Shakh Sailaukan
AI/ML Engineer & AI4S Researcher
Co-founder of Rixt. Currently founder in residence at EF.
Before that, I researched discrete diffusion models and developed biomedical ML benchmarks at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. At CrayonLabs, a Dubai-based startup, I built agents for recruiting senior hires and trained models that help early-stage VCs evaluate founders.
Along the way: won $20k across hackathons (including office hours with a YC general partner), competed at the World Robot Olympiad 2022 Finals, ran a creative agency, organized rocketry competitions, and was a board member of Beyond Curriculum PF, a non-profit for science olympiads and research. Big fan of the Bauhaus.
Open source, for fun
- howsure: Calibration and error-bounded thresholds for decision models.
- bauplan: A Claude Code skill that maps your AI agent's workflow from code.
- llama.cpp: Refactored diffusion generation into a reusable module.
- Gropius: A calm, local-first GTD board for Mac with a Pomodoro timer.
- unmask: A local, OpenAI-compatible server for diffusion language models.
- GenMol: Contributed fixes to NVIDIA's discrete diffusion model for molecules.
- attention: A hackathon-winning AI safety system for industrial workflows.