AI Engineer HQ alumni stories

GuideLast reviewed Oct 16, 2026By Himanshu Ramchandani
Short answer

These are stories from builders who went through AI Engineer HQ, shared with their permission. Each one states where the person started, what they built in the cohort and where they work now. They describe individual paths, and they aren't a promise that anyone else will get the same result.

How each story is written

Every story follows the same structure, so you can compare paths instead of reading testimonials:

1 - Starting point: role, years of experience, what they already knew. 2 - What they built in the cohort, and the problem it solved. 3 - What broke and how they fixed it. 4 - Where they work now, and over what period the change happened. 5 - A quote in their own words.

Builders

Surjit Choudhury

Now at Envision Pharma.

Alex Ariza Herrera

Based in Colombia.

Saravanan S

Now at Tejis.AI.

Rahul Paul

Now at Telstra.

Priyank Sharma

Now at Dr. Reddy's.

Meena Chokkalingam

Now at Amazon.

From the floor

The expectation in AI Engineer HQ is that builders do the engineering work themselves: they work on issues, get pull requests reviewed, test their solution, deploy it and understand the decisions they're making, and these stories are about what each person built under that expectation, not about the cohort.

Next step

Leaders can continue with the AI leadership handbook, and engineers can see what the cohort involves at AI Engineer HQ.

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