Zachary Proser
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Hi, I’m Zack 👋

I’m an AI engineer on the Applied AI team at WorkOS — we power authentication for OpenAI, Cursor, and a lot of the labs you’ve heard of. Fifteen years of web engineering before that. I help with the AI enablement function for our whole org: internal tooling, workshops, harnesses for teammates, helping everyone level up. I write down what I learn.

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