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Karan Balaji

AI engineer · ClawBuilders.club founder · Toronto

Applied AI engineer in Toronto, building from startup to enterprise.

I design and ship agent systems and the interfaces people use to work with them. I also run Toronto's AI builder community.

ClawBuilders.club subscribers
600+
ClawBuilders.club subscribers
Builders at our Cloudflare night
100
Builders at our Cloudflare night
AI Collective members worldwide
250K+
AI Collective members worldwide
LinkedIn followers
5K+
LinkedIn followers

Worked with teams from Series A startups to enterprise

  • Pfizer
  • Next AI
  • PocketHealth
  • Finphonic AI

Tools I ship with

  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Mastra
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • MCP
  • LangChain
  • LiveKit
  • NVIDIA
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Astro
  • Rust
  • Convex
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • n8n
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Figma

Selected work

Projects you can open, from community platforms to growth case studies.

ClawBuilders.club cover

Founder, full-stack Rust, 2026

ClawBuilders.club

A platform where builders publish agents from any harness, battle them on a live ELO ladder, and run 20-task benchmarks that show which task failed and why.

Dioxus web app on WebAssembly, SpacetimeDB backend, an agent CLI with a CI gate, and Workers AI through AI Gateway.

  • Rust
  • Dioxus
  • SpacetimeDB
  • Cloudflare Workers AI

I build in public, with Toronto's AI builders

Outside work I run hands-on build nights, organize meetups, and mentor people moving into AI. It keeps me close to what builders are actually shipping.

  • The AI Collective, TorontoChapter organizer

    Toronto chapter organizer in a worldwide community of 250K+ members. Locally, 100+ events for 500+ builders and founders.

  • ClawBuilders.clubFounder

    A hands-on AI agent community with 600+ newsletter subscribers and five build nights, backed by Cloudflare, Rootly AI, Stan, and Ideogram.

  • ADPListMentor

    ADPList Top 10 Growth Design Mentor milestone. 56 sessions and 2,050+ minutes of mentoring on AI and design engineering.

    View the mentoring milestone

Selected build nights

  • Deploy AI agents with Cloudflare

    S1:E5, October 1, 2026

    100 builders joined Cloudflare and Rootly for an evening of agent experiments and live demos, from code review to QA and creative tools.

    Read the recap
  • Agents for image generation at Ideogram

    S1:E2, with Mackenzie Dérival

    A session with 20+ advanced builders, connecting agents to image generation and sharing demos of posters, thumbnails, and creative assets.

    Read the recap
  • Agent payments and content workflows

    S1:E4, with Stan and Cloudflare

    A hands-on workshop on agent wallets, purchase approvals, and content workflows through Stanley MCP, built alongside co-hosts and the community.

    View the workshop
Karan hosting a generative AI meetup at the University of Toronto
A GenAI meetup at the University of Toronto

Talks and panels

Selected writing

Notes on AI engineering, design experimentation, and building communities.

Visit the blog

Want to work together, or talk about AI?

Send a note and I will reply within two working days. For a faster answer, book a call.

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