Richelle Ji
Conference affiliation: Chief of Staff · Featherless AI · 2026
Richelle Ji helped build SF Tech Week Signal, a guide that lets readers filter a crowded event calendar by what they want to do. A listing can carry several tags, so the same event can appear for someone looking to meet investors and someone looking for research collaborators.
An earlier project tackled a smaller discovery problem. At a 2018 hackathon, Richelle built RepoFetcher, a web app that took a GitHub username and displayed 15 repositories so a visitor could get a quick look at the account’s work.
Turning event listings into filters
The Tech Week guide uses Featherless AI’s Simple Jev to turn descriptions into tags. Simple Jev reads next-token scores: given a prompt and a set of possible answers, it uses the model’s scores for those answers to classify the text. For an event guide, that means readers can filter by purpose even when organizers describe similar events in different words.
When the dashboard’s previous endpoints became unavailable, Richelle changed it to call the public classifier directly from the browser. She kept the live progress display and paced requests to stay within the public API’s limits.
Richelle also co-hosted Featherless’s Jev Hack/Demo Night in San Francisco. In November 2026, she was credited as Featherless AI’s Chief of Staff and as an emcee for the AI Engineer Code Summit workshop day.