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How CodeRabbit hired an Applied AI Engineer straight out of his PhD

Erfan Al-Hossami brought research experience from Stability AI and a PhD on AI for code debugging, and has been shipping CodeRabbit's CLI and agent integrations ever since.

Erfan Al-Hossami (center)
from onboarding to first candidate
1 week
from onboarding to first candidate
of interviews to hire
1 month
of interviews to hire
Series C valuation
$1.5B
Series C valuation

Algora helped CodeRabbit hire Applied AI Engineer Erfan Al-Hossami out of his PhD.

Earlier, Erfan was a research scientist at Stability AI, with contributions to StableLM, and before that worked on the U.S. Air Force's NIPRGPT GenAI platform.

His PhD at UNC Charlotte focused on computational Socratic dialogue for code debugging and education, which is extremely relevant to CodeRabbit's AI code review tools.

After a month of interviews with the team, Erfan joined CodeRabbit full-time.

“Within one week of onboarding, we started interviewing qualified candidates who joined CodeRabbit in San Francisco.”
Sam Hayes
Sam Hayes
Talent Acquisition Lead

Since joining, Erfan has been busy shipping improvements to CodeRabbit's tools, including the CLI for local and pre-PR reviews, agent integrations, Claude Code plugin and sub-agent workflows, and the overall developer experience.

Erfan Al-Hossami (right) in a podcast interview overlooking the Bay Bridge

Today CodeRabbit reviews millions of PRs every week for 17,000 teams, including NVIDIA.

Congrats CodeRabbit on your Series C at a $1.5B valuation.

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