Zach M. | Leland

Zach M.

AI YC-Backed Founder

Studied at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Works at D-Star

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Zach's Coaching Offerings

AI Recruiting: Start-to-Finish

Expert help on everything from getting the interview to landing the offer.

Starting at $1,80010h+ of coaching

Advance Your AI Career

Expert coaching to elevate your skills and achieve your artificial intelligence goals.

Starting at $1,80010h+ of coaching

Nail Your AI Interviews

Crush the interview through mock interviews, personalized feedback, and more.

Starting at $9505h+ of coaching

Custom hourly · $200/hr

Zach’s AI Careers Qualifications

Experience level: Executive

I was the founder and CEO of a YC-backed AI infrastructure startup, Superpowered AI (YC S22). Then I built a popular open-source retrieval engine, dsRAG (1.5k stars), that achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging RAG benchmarks like FinanceBench. Now I consult with startups to help them build high-performance applications with LLMs.

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About Zach

I've been working in AI/ML my entire career, first as a quant hedge fund manager and then as a startup founder. I was the founder and CEO of Superpowered AI, which took part in the S22 batch of Y Combinator. We pioneered some cutting-edge RAG techniques and served 10,000+ users. Now I spend most of my time helping startups build state-of-the-art applications with LLMs.