Nebius Fellow Program
Nebius Fellows is a curated program for AI builders, open-source contributors, and technical community leaders who are actively shaping the AI ecosystem.
The program is designed to support builders with access, visibility, resources, and community, while creating stronger connections between Nebius and the broader AI builder ecosystem.
Meet the first cohort
Maroon Ayoub
Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Red Hat
Tel Aviv, Israel
Maroon Ayoub is an AI infrastructure architect at Red Hat focused on distributed inference. He co-leads the llm-d project and contributes to vLLM, specializing in scaling LLM inference with Kubernetes-native architectures, KV-cache orchestration, and open-source ecosystem integrations.
Linda Haviv
AI Engineer & Founder, LindaV Media Labs
New York, USA
Linda Haviv is an AI engineer and founder of LindaV Media Labs, educating builders on AI infrastructure. She brings 10+ years across cloud, DevOps, SRE, software engineering and developer advocacy, including at AWS and Anyscale.
Kosseila Haddalene
Founder & Principal consultant, CloudThrill
Toronto, Canada
Kosseila is Founder of CloudThrill and an AI Infrastructure Lead with 18+ years in tech. He contributes to the vLLM Production Stack, creates open-source AI deployment blueprints, demystifies AI topics like KV cache and diffusion models, and hosts the Tech Beats Unplugged podcast.
Dhruv Diddi
Founder, Solo Tech
San Francisco, USA
Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with experience in Applied Machine Learning, MLOps, Computer Vision, and Full Stack Development.
Mesut Oezdil
DevOps Engineer, Adfinis GmbH
Stuttgart, Germany
Mesut Oezdil is a DevOps engineer and CNCF contributor specializing in GPU virtualization for AI/ML on Kubernetes. A core contributor to Project HAMi and kagent, he’s co-authoring a Packt book on cloud-native HPC/AI infrastructure and speaks on Kubernetes, observability, and agent protocols.
Yong Quan Tan
CEO & Founder, Kairos Labs
Singapore
Yong Quan is Founder of Kairos Labs, deploying AI for institutional clients and cross-border enterprises in SF and Singapore. He also leads AI Tinkerers Singapore (1,500+ builders).
Vivek Haldar
Founder, Enchiridion Labs
Los Angeles, USA
Vivek Haldar is founder of Enchiridion Labs, where he builds specialized harness engineering infrastructure and tools for practical AI-agent systems. He spent 18 years at Google in engineering leadership roles, then was VP of Engineering at Emergence AI.
Angel (Mel) Melendez Cordoba
Founder, Pokta Labs
Mexico City, Mexico
Mel is the Founder & CEO of Pokta Labs — a Frontier Tech Studio accelerating healthcare and education. A Biomedical Engineer with development and entrepreneurship background, Mel has global experience supporting teams adopting tech through design, implementation and training.
Raphael Gutsche
Founder & Host of AI Agents Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Raphael runs AI Agents Berlin, a thriving community for builders focused on applied agentic AI. Having hosted 12+ events that attracted thousands of registrations, he is expanding the series in H2 2026 to bring high-signal builders, real-world use cases, and technical talent into the Nebius ecosystem.
Ale Marin
Co-Founder, NERDCONF
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ale Marin is building Latin America’s frontier tech ecosystem through content, hackathons, and builder programs that turn community energy into shipped projects.
Rayyan Zahid
Founder, Immersive Commons
San Francisco, USA
Rayyan Zahid is an AI builder and Web-A.0 community leader in San Francisco. He founded The Immersive Commons, a frontier lab that hosts Vibe Coding Nights, a weekly hands-on building series in its 35th edition and 500 members.
Ayub Yanturin
Host, Innovators Guild
London, UK
Ayub Yanturin hosts Innovators Guild, a curated London community of 850+ vetted engineers, scientists, data practitioners, and technical founders. He brings senior builders together through selective events to share real lessons on GenAI, ML systems, and enterprise architecture.
Why join
Fellows get exclusive access, perks, and opportunities!
Access
Early or exclusive access to products, credits, and technical resources.
Visibility
Grow your presence through speaking, content, and community.
Network
Connect with top AI builders, founders, and engineers.
Opportunities
Collaborate with the Nebius DevRel team on events and initiatives.
Support
Get direct access to the team building the platform.
Community
Join a curated network of ambitious AI builders worldwide.
What fellows do
Fellows contribute in different ways depending on their strengths and interests.
Community
Host meetups, workshops, or local builder gatherings.
Content
Create technical tutorials, demos, blogs, or videos.
Projects
Build and showcase open source projects using Nebius.
Support
Help other builders learn and grow in the ecosystem.
Feedback
Share product feedback and real-world builder insights.
Advocacy
Represent Nebius within technical communities.
Who it’s for
Nebius Fellows is intentionally curated. We care more about real builders, meaningful contributions, and strong communities than inflated numbers.
We’re looking for builders already creating, experimenting, and contributing in AI.
AI Engineers
Open Source Contributors
Technical Content Creators
Community Leaders
Hackathon Builders
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