David O'Connor

David O'Connor brings 10 years of hands-on AI engineering experience to Wondeme, specializing in making complex generative AI systems reliable, fast, and accessible to non-technical users. His career began at Adobe, where he spent four years on the Sensei AI team building generative image tools that would eventually influence products used by millions of creative professionals.

David then joined OpenAI as a research engineer during a pivotal period in the company's development of large-scale generative models. His work there focused on image generation consistency and fine-tuning techniques that allow AI systems to maintain character identity across multiple generated images — a capability that became directly relevant to personalized children's book creation.

At Wondeme, David leads the engineering team responsible for the entire book creation pipeline: from photo upload and face analysis, through AI story generation, to the illustration engine that produces consistent, high-quality character art across every page of a book. He has optimized the system to generate a complete personalized book in under 60 seconds. David holds an MS in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University and has 8 patents in generative AI and image synthesis.