Enginears

Gradial are building the AI-native platform for Marketing orgs. Their agents automate manual marketing operations to drive growth, visibility in AI search, and complete brand governance. We discussed finding PMF in an early AI-era, building an end-to-end agentic platform and building great agents. - Intro into Gradial and the mission. - Intro into the marketing problem space and what you’re buildi...

This week on Enginears we are joined Brian Fang and Shreyas who are the Founding Engineer and CTO/Co-founder respectively of Antimetal. Antimetal is the autonomous system for production. Their product is designed to continuously understand, operate and improve your environment. ·       Intro into Brian and Shreyas ·       Intro into Antimetal, the mission and the problem space generally. ·       S...

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab focused on understanding and intentionally designing advanced AI systems. We had CTO and co-founder Dan Balsam come and join us to talk about what they're building, why and how. • Introducing Goodfire • Introducing the problem space they are in and the mission at hand. • The engineering mentality that sparked Goodfire to life in late 2022. • What is...

Welcome back to another Enginears podcast, this week I’m joined by Valliappa Lakshmanan, Co-founder and CTO of Obin AI. Obin AI provides an end-to-end platform to reimagine, build, and manage production-grade AI agents inside your own environment, scaling the capacity and judgment of your best people firm-wide, specifically in the Finance space. - Intro into Valliappa and his background. - Intro i...

This week we are joined by Jon Sheller (Head of Engineering) and Brian Jadot (Staff Engineer) at Nuvo. Nuvo are building an AI-native and agentic trade operation underpinning onboarding, accounts recievable, credit and risk management and much more packed into this network. Intro into Brian and Jon's background. Intro into Nuvo and the problem space / mission. Key engineering challenges that under...

This week I'm joined by Arnav Mishra, who is co-founder and CTO of DOSS. We are exploring the world where AI meets ERP and how DOSS are transforming the ERP landscape and the challenges that come with. Introduction into the problem space of ERP and the problems you’re solving. Historical ERP costs, consultancies and fragmentation and why the problem space is ripe for innovation. The way in which D...

This week I’m introducing Benny Chan, Co-founder and CTO at Fireworks AI. Building with Fireworks provides a platform for partners and developers to optimise for speed and scale, whatever their use case, whatever the model. - Who are Fireworks and what are they building? - The Fireworks platform, their use cases (agentic systems, conversational), pricing, partners and we walked through what they a...

Another Enginears podcast welcoming Austin Shepphard, Head of Engineering at Hypha, to talk about building AI-powered financial infrastructure, scaling modern data systems, and rethinking how companies operate with AI-native tooling. We’ll dig into engineering tradeoffs, product decisions, and what it takes to build reliable systems in an AI-first world. Intro into Hypha and the problem space they...

Ben joined us as CTO and Co-founder of Peregrine Technologies. Ben and Nick, fellow Co-founder spent years building data infrastructure for refugee populations and deploying technology in some of the world's most complex security environments. Peregrine was founded to build mission-critical data infrastructure for law enforcement, health, and human services — and we’re going to be exploring what h...

This week I'm joined by John Larkin, Head of Engineering at Rebar. Rebar are driving AI and Computer Vision into Construction Software to help innovate and build faster with tighter collaboration. We unpacked the impact they are having in the construction industry, the enormity of the engineering challenge and some of how they are building. Intro into John and his background. Intro into the proble...

We welcomed Dan Schiebler, CTO and Co-Founder Artemis Security. Today we'll be talking about the unique technical problems and scale at Artemis, what it means to build with an "AI-native approach," and how they've built a team with an extremely high bar for talent to tackle these complex challenges. Intro into Artemis Security and the problem space Dan's background at Twitter (X), Abnormal AI and...

The workforce management and customer support world has been widely spoken about as one of the areas to change in the age of AI. This week we are welcoming John Wang from Assembled to talk to us about the journey of building Assembled (workforce management platform), key engineering/design choices to reducing AI spend. We’ve got a great breakdown in the show of what it’s like to go from processing...

This week I’m joined by Matt Lynch, CTO and Co-founder of Sage. Sage are bringing technology modernisation and Applied AI to the healthcare // care home industries. Matt is an ex-Palantir alumni, raised a $35M in Q1 2025, we’re going to be getting under the hood of some of the challenges in the technology <> healthcare intersection. We broke down the problem space of healthcare technology an...

This week we are joined by Charlton Roberts, CTO at FLORA. FLORA are building AI for the creatives. This week, we're going to be talking about three key components that really make up their business and how they build for the creative space. They have three pods (Intelligence, AI and Craft) This week we are diving into the make-up of Intelligence, AI, internal agents, re-routing between different...

This week I'm joined by Mek, who is VP of Engineering at Stuut, a Series A-backed A16Z business in New York. We're going to be diving into the AI-native world of accounts receivable. In Feb 2026, Stuut passed a monumental feat in processing a billion dollars in transactions for their customers. Mek joins us to discuss what they're building, some of their engineering challenges, and bringing some o...

Catherine Jue, co-founder at Kernel ( https://www.kernel.sh/ ) Kernel are building web agents in a crazy fast, open source way for them to be able to access the internet. We're going to be talking about the technical, product, and business challenges that throw up something as ambitious as this. As we always do, we'll be getting to know the founder behind the idea, or the leader behind the idea. -...

Newly-Series C funded Suno came to talk to us about AI-generated music in this new era of streaming AI-generated music at unprecedented scale and the ambiguity that comes with building in a new category globally. We broke down the mission We broke down the dynamics of the Platform team Outlining process of building at serious scale // availability = ultimate goal of platform engineering. How do yo...

Today I’m joined by Deductive AI. Sameer is an absolute powerhouse, one of the Founding Engineers at Databricks, spent 5 years at Meta building large scale services and now building Deductive AI. Deductive are building self-healing, self-learning services. They are building reinforcement learning into their product offering to heal legacy (..even new code) being generated by AI. Sameer's backgroun...

This week I’m delighted to introduce Ayush Sharma, Founder and CEO of Warp. Warp are building the next-gen, AI-native employee management platform for fast-growing companies. We are diving into Warp’s journey, why they are tackling the employee management space and more importantly the how behind their journey – it wouldn’t be an Enginears podcast if we aren’t breaking down the product and enginee...

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If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! There's a lot of rage in the AI-SRE space right now and I was keen to get some of the big players on the show to get under the hood of what they're building and the areas of focus. Playing the same game but approaches from different angles. - Hacking and building with his co-founder pre "AI" - Their thinking and anti-patterns behind build...

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An opportunity to sit down with Darragh to discuss the ideas and strategy behind building out Fin. - 10 year Intercom engineering leadership veteran sits down to discuss building out Fin – The #1 AI Agent for customer service. - Learning how to apply knowledge and industry to AI. - The challenges of building an AI native product from the ground up. - The important of building a world-class AI team...

Trusted by over 750k developers at some of the top engineerings companies globally like Netflix, NVIDIA, DoorDash + more, Warp are taking the AI development world by storm. Developers using Warp save on average an hour a day from unlocking the power of the terminal, steering agents with fine-grained control, and accomplishing more of their workflow from a single app. • Zach’s background in the ear...

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Outtake's cybersecurity agents secure digital identities at internet-scale. The agentic platform is always-on, constantly securing modern attack surfaces with advanced search, real-time threat classification, and autonomous response. - Outtake tackles the hardest problems of online identity and multimodal agentic AI in production. - More...