Developer and creator teaching practical AI that makes the hard parts feel easy.
I’m Lorenze Jay — Lead Open-Source Engineer at CrewAI. I build and teach AI workflows, agentic systems, and developer tools that turn theory into real-world results. I’ve spoken at Nvidia, GitHub, and AWS, helping thousands of engineers build agentic systems.
Work Compilation
Open Source + Developer Tools
I build developer tools helping thousands of engineers ship better ai agents to contributing to a leading agentic system framework that runs billions of workflows for over 70% of the Fortune 500.
Highlights
- Open Source Framework used by 70% of the Fortune 500.
- Spoke at Nvidia, DocuSign, AWS, and GitHub offices.
- Conference keynote speaker.
Work Compilation
CrewAI
—Lead Open-Source Engineer
Uplift Digital Solutions
—Founder
Unifai
—Software Engineer
Stateful
—Software Engineer
Inspiration
The signals I study to build better agents.
My work lives at the intersection of AI agents, open source, and developer tools. feel easy for builders.
CrewAI
Multi-agent orchestration
Chroma
Vector memory systems
Context Rot
Long-context decay
Recursive Language Models
RLMs
Plan-and-Act
Long-horizon planning
Context Engineering
Self-improving contexts
Memory Selection
What the brain keeps
Writing & Essays
Practical AI, made understandable.
I write for engineers who want to build production-ready agentic systems: memory design, orchestration, and real-world tradeoffs. Clear explanations, strong opinions, and code you can ship.
Latest essays
View allAdding rag systems to your agentic workflows can help you build more intelligent systems with more relevant context and data. This guide will show you how to build a practical that uses internal documents to generate a report.
I used Verba to create a knowledge base easily and using my voice to fetch appropriate data and open it for me.
When creating a waitlist form you can do it entirely for free with next.js, resend and google apis
An initiative i'm exploring is leveraging the power of content creation, specifically short form content videos to bring developers together as well as educate the developer community of the various developer tools and technologies they can use for their projects or work.