// PERSON
swyx
ROLE HOSTMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN OCTOBER 18, 2026
// BIO
Shawn Wang, known by his handle swyx, is a co-founder and CEO of AI Engineer and the co-host of the Latent Space podcast alongside Alessio Fanelli. He is best known for his 2023 essay "The Rise of the AI Engineer," which articulated a new practitioner role bridging software engineering and applied AI, and for organizing the AI Engineer Summit conference. Before founding AI Engineer, he held developer relations roles at companies including AWS, Netlify, and Airbyte.
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