Developer Relations · Black Forest Labs
Maanav Dalal
I help developers build with FLUX at Black Forest Labs. Demos, talks, tools, and the occasional rabbit hole. Designer by night, meanderer in writing.
About
Hey, I'm Maanav
By day I do Developer Relations at Black Forest Labs, which is a fancy way of saying I build demos, give talks, and write code that helps developers ship with FLUX. Before this I was an AI Product Manager at Microsoft, where I built Foundry Local and rebuilt the ONNX Runtime site.
By night: designer, developer, and serial website rebuilder (you're looking at version seven). I write a quarterly newsletter for friends, and I meander in the blog whenever a train ride gets long enough.
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Climbing
- Skiing
- Gym
- Coffee
- (Bad) Tennis
strength and play, in equal measure
Selected Work
Things I've built
FLUX at Black Forest Labs
Launch kits, live demos, and developer tooling for FLUX.2. The job is making frontier image models feel like tools you already know.
- DevRel
- FLUX.2
- 2026
Foundry Local
Built foundrylocal.ai from scratch as the home for Microsoft's local AI runtime. 20K+ monthly views.
- Product
- Web
- 20K/mo
ONNX Runtime
Complete redesign of onnxruntime.ai, the site for Microsoft's cross-platform inference engine. 250K+ monthly views.
- Design
- Web
- 250K/mo
Hush
Private, fully offline voice-to-text for the desktop. Open source, no cloud, no compromise.
- OSS
- Desktop
- Local AI
Writing