Enginears

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. -> Building a web browser agent and uncovering the use cases and capabilities -> From millisecond speeds to cloud infrastructure at scale we break down some of the engineering challenges that exist at Kernel that you're trying to solve on a day-to-day basis. -> The challenges in building a web browser agent and user / security adoption. -> Introducing Managed Auth: a standardized way for agents to log in and stay logged in across the internet. (https://x.com/usekernel/status/2021581721280401709) -> Who and how they are hiring. If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juecd/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 you scale globally in an AI era where not many people have been before? How is AI changing the platform game? Deep-dive into some of their engineering challenges Growth over the next 12 months! If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rider-wang-327981116/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 background and being a Founding Engineer at Databricks Recognising an opportunity in reinforcement learning and self-healing / self-learning code and systems Building an AI-SRE Generating a course of action in ambiguous cases -> an open-ended engineering challenge that has never been seen before and planning for cases like this Bets that Deductive are placing in the next 6-12 months If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 engineering challenges behind this. - 2 years in, closed $18M Series A, alongside YC, Dropbox C-level, Amjad (Replit) - crew of highly technical + product folks. - Understanding the friction points of the payroll ecosystem and how Warp are re-building this with a highly-technical, AI-native approach. - Scale, performance and fault-tolerancy challenges. - Ayush's product-first mindset and how he believes companies of 2025+ will build category defining companies. - Meta points around AI/LLM's If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushsharma01/ Careers: https://www.joinwarp.com/careers/roles Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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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 building a traditional SaaS business and how they are so customer-obsessed. - What it really takes to serve mission-critical services + names like NVIDIA. - Building Rootly as an AI-first company to incubating their own research lab, to driving AI through sales/GTM. Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjrichardtang/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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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 and being non-negotiable with the profile of person. If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darraghcurran/ https://www.intercom.com/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 early Google sheets days and bringing a true product/consumer mindset to engineering. • Inception of Warp and why he wanted to bring this to market. • A number of key pivots in the business in 2022 + 2024 found the team unlocking the value of LLM’s. • Why they are racing away as #1 coding agent, especially building in the terminal. • Adding $1M net revenue since April 2025 WEEKLY! If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/ https://www.warp.dev/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 than 80% of internet traffic is now image or video. Outtake is building the infrastructure and workflows required to understand this tidal wave of rich media data and proactively protect against sophisticated digital threats at scale. We take a dive into the engineering challenges behind building the Outtake platform + their agents. They are hiring engineers, product, sales + GTM in NYC. You need to go and check these guys out. Careers: https://outtake.notion.site/Careers-at-Outtake-b58a4205553743dc8a5b9dc328e77143 Guests: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-promisel/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomascintra/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiahui-j/ https://www.outtake.ai/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 43:25 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaye/ https://www.statsig.com/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:01 - Vijaye Intro. 02:51 - Why start Statsig? 05:17 - Statsig Intro. 09:51 - What has changed since starting the company in 2021? 12:23 - How Statsig are able to make data driven decisions? 15:32 - Day to day at Statsig. 19:23 - Where have been some inflection points on the journey? 22:28 - How do you take some of your customer's building strategy and implement into your own? 25:18 - Quantification of data. 27:28 - Where are companies going to be betting over the next 3-6 months time and how does that help direct your team as a leader? 29:18 - How are Statsig looking to grow? 31:29 - Vijaye & Statsig Outro. 32:20 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spiros/ https://resolve.ai/about-us#careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:12 - Spiros Intro. 07:42 - Resolve AI Intro. 13:13 - Engineering challenges at Resolve AI. 20:42 - 'Your best engineers can be a bottleneck in your team' - what does this mean? 22:47 - Where will AI projects will succeed and fail? 25:01 - Where is Spiros placing bets for the next 3 - 6 months inside Resolve AI? 26:51 - What types of people are Resolve AI looking for and where? 30:51 - Spiros & Resolve AI Outro. 31:30 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/puiwah/ https://farohealth.com/company/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:52 - Patrick Intro. 03:36 - What is Patrick noticing in the narrative of AI? 06:22 - Faro Health Intro. 09:25 - How Faro Health are improving the speed and performance of clinical health? 13:19 - Patrick's first couple of weeks at Faro Health as CTO. 15:56 - What does applying AI look like in a compliance heavy environment and the challenges involved? 19:20 - Using and deploying AI agents in the clinical trial process. 22:12 - What is Patrick introducing into Faro Health's AI to improve speed and performance? 24:27 - How would you advise teams to improve speed and performance of their own LLMs? 26:21 - Patrick's experience building AI teams in general and within the Life Sciences space + any advice? 30:02 - Where is Patrick placing bets in the next 3-6 months in the AI sphere? 33:15 - What will the development of the AI coding tools do for the industry? 38:24 - Where are Faro Health growing the business? 39:33 - Patrick & Faro Health Outro. 40:07 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregmfoster/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/merrill-lutsky/ https://graphite.dev/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:41 - Graphite Intro. 03:19 - Graphite's niche. 07:03 - Problem spaces between code generation and the outer loop of review, test and deploy. 12:21 - Enterprise customers vs small customers. 15:56 - Product and engineering challenges building Diamond. 22:03 - Where is AI going into the 3-6 months? 27:05 - What types of people are Graphite looking for? 30:57 - Greg, Merrill & Graphite Outro. 32:06 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damondbanks/ https://flatfile.com/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 05:52 - Damon & Flatfile Intro. 06:53 - Agentic architectures; what they mean to Damon and experience implementing them into Flatfile? 14:29 - What does the cognitive offload look like in Damon's team? 17:01 - Where have some engineering challenges been? 23:28 - Where is some of the industry defining practices be? 27:11 - Who is defining the best practices the most? 30:28 - Where is AI going in the next 3-6 months? 32:46 - Is working with AI hard to plan? 34:48 - Hiring best practices and the next 3-6 months at Flatfile? 38:32 - Flatfile location? 38:49 - Damon & Flatfile Outro. 39:57 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishdhar/ https://www.cortex.io/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:27 - Anish & Cortex Intro. 03:02 - The role Cortex plays. 06:32 - New engineering challenges Anish is seeing. 11:09 - Where could we be with AI in the next couple of years? 19:49 - Where is developer productivity going? 24:13 - What other points are really impactful when creating high performance & high excellence engineering teams? 30:04 - Where are Cortex going in the next 3-6 months? 31:50 - Where are Cortex looking to grow? 36:26 - Anish & Cortex Outro. 37:13 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://x.com/dsa/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/russelldsa/ https://livekit.io/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:05 - Russ Intro. 06:54 - LiveKit Intro. 13:45 - LiveKit today. 29:54 - Where are LiveKit's engineering challenges shifting from and to? 40:28 - Vision for LiveKit for the next 6-12 months. 45:39 - Russ & LiveKit Outro. 49:01 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanstevens3/ https://ramp.com/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:04 - Ryan & Ramp Intro. 04:42 - Early days and ideas at Ramp. 10:04 - Failures and learnings at Ramp. 19:08 - How long did the feature development platform take to build? 20:57 - Difficult to know what technologies to use in 12 months time and leverage. 22:26 - Ramp's set of standards for the universal interface. 25:24 - 3 things Ryan would do differently if he could start at Ramp again. 29:45 - Where are Ramp using LLMs and AI? 38:06 - Where is the cost of LLMs going to be in 3-6 months time? 46:24 - One trait an engineer needs to thrive in today's technology climate? 48:50 - Ryan & Ramp Outro. 49:57 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitsingharya/ https://inscope.notion.site/Careers-InScope-074ab3e2feb74a3ea49d12427ec052e8/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:43 - Ankit Intro. 01:57 - Leading AI at Inscope. 03:32 - Inscope Intro. 04:52 - AI amplify roles rather than replace them. 06:40 - What is an LLM and what is agentic architecture? 12:42 - Successful implementations of where Inscope have been able to apply them. 15:23 - Frameworks and customer implementations. 17:46 - What is Ankit noticing in the space? 20:30 - Top tips from Ankit to maintain simplistic architecture for future scalability with AI. 22:34 - Inscope's implementations and lessons. 25:39 - Where is the AI playbook going in the next 3-6 months? 27:25 - Future of Inscope. 30:25 - Ankit & Inscope Outro. 31:16 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilfeig/ https://www.merge.dev/careers/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsio Twitter: https://x.com/Enginearsio All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:48 - Gil & Merge Intro. 03:09 - Current challenges in data portability and accessibility. 04:21 - Where do Merge fit into this? 05:57 - Where are Merge's engineering challenges? 07:39 - How proactive have Merge been within the AI space and then also reactive? 10:25 - What is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how is it being used at Merge? 15:59 - Security aspects around AI and MCP. 19:00 - Where Gil sees the future of AI infrastructure and at Merge too. 20:30 - Where will Merge be growing? 23:11 - What skills does a current engineer need to have today to succeed (outside curiosity)? 25:25 - Gil & Merge Outro. 26:00 - Enginears Outro. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.