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Developer Relations Engineer · 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.

Maanav Dalal
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About

Hey, I'm Maanav

By day I'm a Developer Relations Engineer 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 the Foundry Local site 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.

strength and play, in equal measure

Selected Work

Things I've built

01

Hush

Private, fully offline voice-to-text for the desktop. Open source, no cloud, no compromise.

OSS · Desktop · Local AIgithub ↗
02

Foundry Local

Built foundrylocal.ai from scratch as the home for Microsoft's local AI runtime. 20K+ monthly views.

Product · Web · 20K/mofoundrylocal.ai ↗
03

ONNX Runtime

Complete redesign of onnxruntime.ai, the site for Microsoft's cross-platform inference engine. 250K+ monthly views.

Design · Web · 250K/moonnxruntime.ai ↗
04

Merwaha Group

Designed and built the site for a Houston real estate developer: duplexes, townhomes, and the case for investing in them.

Client · Web · 2025merwahagroup.com ↗
05

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 · 2026launch kit ↗

Writing

Recent meanderings

May 11, 2026Meandering

33% Of the year is over

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April 19, 2026Meandering

Things that make me me

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April 12, 2026Meandering

It’s a given

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Contact

Got something weird worth building?

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