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Developer tools & infrastructure

S12 Bonus: Rickard's Deterministic Return: Converting Scattered Data into Autonomous, Production-Grade Apps with Rickard Hansson, Founder & CEO of Gainable

S12 E30: Wastewater Guardians: Automating Biology to Protect Clean Water with Virginia Szepietowski, Co-Founder of Nyad AI

S12 Bonus: The App-Aware Illusion: Why Infinite Compute Fails Without Underlying Infrastructure Accountability and the Case for "Boring" IT with Richard Luna, President & Founder of Protected Harbor

S12 E28: The AI Throughput Illusion: Why Splurging on Expensive Models Fails to Ship Code and How to Measure Real Engineering Output with Emilie Schario, Co-Founder & Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo Code

S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI

S12 Bonus: The App Is Dead, Long Live the Outcome: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting Data Infrastructure and Transforming PostgreSQL Into a Dynamic Scratch Pad with Ajay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of Tiger Data

The AI Control Loop: AI Discovery isn't just AI - with Tim Ebbers of Wallarm

S12 E23: Why Traditional Enterprise Linux Starves Your Multi-Million Dollar AI Hardware and How to Reclaim Lost GPU ROI with Gregory M. Kurtzer, Founder & CEO of CIQ

Founder Chats - Daulet Amirkhanov

S12 E20: The Agentic Privileged Access Crisis: Why Making AI Agents "Well-Behaved" Fails and How to Structuralize Their Blast Radius with Ofir Stein, Co-Founder & CTO of Apono

S12 Bonus: Why Your Enterprise AI Pilots Are Stalling and the Unsexy Data Pipeline Fix for 10x Engineering Velocity with Tyler Hochman, Founder & CEO of FORE Enterprise

Founder Chats - Vadim Dedov

S12 E12: The Rogue Agent Epidemic: Moving Beyond Laptop Prompts to Build a Centralized, Production-Grade AI Control Plane with Robert Brennan, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenHands

Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota

Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

S12 Bonus: Decoupling Compute and Storage to Solve the Petabyte-Scale Log Cost Crisis and Power Real-Time AI SRE Engines with David Sztykman, Chief Architect & VP of Product at Hydrolix

S11 E28: The Temporal Correctness Crisis: Why Static RAG Context Leads to Broken AI Agent Actions and How to Engine-Unify Real-Time Streaming Data with Hojjat Jafarpour, Founder & CEO of DeltaStream

Developer Chats - Svyatoslav Babinets of Meta

The Railsware Way - Mistakes & Lessons in Product Evolution, with Oleksii Ianchuk

S11 Favorite: Why "Vibe Coding" Fails at Scale and How No-Code Ecosystems Unlocked $1B in User Revenue with Emmanuel Straschnov, Co-Founder & CEO of Bubble

S11 E24: The Agent Swarm Architecture: Moving Beyond Single-Prompt Bots to Orchestrate 5,000 Parallel AI Agents Safely in Production with Mrinal Wadhwa, Founder & CTO of Autonomy

S11 E15: Passing Telco Infrastructure Costs to Advertisers and Scaling an All-IP Wireless Carrier to 300M+ Downloads with Derek Ting, Co-Founder & CEO of TextNow

S11 E11: The Auth-to-Growth Pipeline: Eliminating Legacy CIAM Friction and Building Customer-Facing Infrastructure for the Product-Led Growth Era with Dave Berner, VP of Product at Kinde

The Next Iteration of Gremlin – with Kolton Andrus, CEO

S11 E6: The Death of the Legacy Landing Page: Rebuilding a No-Code Pioneer for the Agentic AI and Multi-Armed Bandit Era with Michael Sacca, CEO of Leadpages

S11 Bonus: Why "Vibe Coding" Fails at Scale and How No-Code Ecosystems Unlocked $1B in User Revenue with Emmanuel Straschnov, Co-Founder & CEO of Bubble

S11 Bonus: The Weekend Prototype Pivot: Transitioning from FinTech DevOps to Advancing AI Research Infrastructure with David Asamu, Co-Founder of Nesla

S11 E2: The 4x Faster Indexer: Scaling Rust-Based Search to Millions of Documents Without Infrastructure Bloat with Clément "Kero" Renault, Co-Founder & CTO of Meilisearch

S10 Favorite: From Employee #8 at Stripe to Challenging the Triopoly of AWS, Azure, and GCP: Fixing the Broken Cloud-Native Developer Experience with Anurag Goel, Founder & CEO of Render

S10 Bonus: The De-Googled Workspace Movement: Decentralizing Enterprise Tech with Private, Open-Source Productivity Suites with David Young, Founder & CEO of Federated Computer

S10 Bonus: The CI/CD Performance Shift: Accelerating Build Pipelines and Eliminating Developer Idle Time with Darko Fabijan, Co-Founder & CTO of Semaphore

S10 E23: From the Netscape Era to the Multicloud Era: Building a 15-Year Infrastructure Moat and Designing Remote-First Culture with Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple

S10 E21: Replacing Fragmented Agencies with Integrated High-Velocity Product Teams with Austin Vance, Co-Founder & CEO of Focused Labs (Focused.io)

S10 E20: Accelerating Cloud-Native Tooling and Engineering Blameless DevOps Culture with Tameem Hourani, Founder & CEO of RapDev

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Imad Gharazeddine, CEO of Mamo

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO, DIFC Innovation Hub

S10 E18: Replacing Complex IaC Plumbing with Visual Internal Developer Platforms with Cory O'Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO of Massdriver

S10 Bonus: The Voice-Native CRM Frontier: Eliminating Cold Leads and Automating Outbound Pipelines with No-Code AI Agents with Torrey Leonard, Co-Founder & CEO of Thoughtly

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI

S10 E17: The Code-Aware DAST Era: Scaling Runtime Security at the Speed of AI Coding Assistants with Joni Klippert, Co-Founder & CEO of StackHawk

S10 E15: Merging Code-First End-to-End Testing with Modern Synthetics and Agentic Root-Cause Analysis with Hannes Lenke, Co-Founder & CEO of Checkly

S10 Favorite: The Open-Source LaunchDarkly Killer: Engineering Privacy-First Edge Evaluation with Egil Østhus, Co-Founder & CEO of Unleash

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Sonia Gokhale, VentureSouq

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Raakin Iqbal, Nucleus AI

S10 Favorite: Scaling EdTech Infrastructure: De-Siloing the Digital Classroom with Shaunak Roy, CEO of Yellowdig

S10 E11: The End of Data Decryption: Processing Sensitive AI and Web3 Workflows on Encrypted Data with Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Nigel Smart, Chief Academic Officer at Zama

S10 Bonus: The Open-Source Design Revolution: Breaking the Figma Monopoly with Browser-Native SVG and Code-First Collaboration with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, Co-Founder & CEO of Penpot

The Haunted House of APIs - Phantom Threats with Adam Arellano

The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

The Haunted House of APIs - The Dark Corners of APIs with Katie Paxton-Fear

S10 Bonus: The Real-Time Language Breakthrough: Eliminating Call Center Friction and Building Future-Proof LLM Infrastructure with Heiki Riesenkampf, Founder of Commonbase

S10 Bonus: From Employee #8 at Stripe to Challenging the Triopoly of AWS, Azure, and GCP: Fixing the Broken Cloud-Native Developer Experience with Anurag Goel, Founder & CEO of Render

S9 Favorite: The Open-Source LaunchDarkly Killer: Engineering Privacy-First Edge Evaluation with Egil Østhus, Co-Founder & CEO of Unleash

S9 E34: From Managing Infrastructure at Twilio to Defining the Internal Developer Portal: Driving Context-Aware Software Governance with Anish Dhar, Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex

S9 E30: The Infrastructure-as-Code Rebellion: Overthrowing Terraform Blockades and Launching Figma-Style DevOps Models with Adam Jacob, Creator of Chef and Founder & CEO of System Initiative

S9 Bonus: Riding the 36K-Star Black Swan: How an Impromptu Open-Source Fork Saved the DevOps Ecosystem from Proprietary Lock-In with Omry Hay, Co-founder & CTO of env0

S9 E25: The Incident Response Revolution: Overthrowing War-Room Chaos and Automating Slack-Native SRE Workflows with JJ Tang, Co-Founder & CEO of Rootly

S9 E19: The Event-Native API Revolution: Unifying Synchronous Rest and Asynchronous Kafka Pipelines with Linus Håkansson, Chief Product Officer at Gravitee

S9 Bonus: Doing the Work of a Whole DevOps Team, with just two people - Erin Marie & Jesus Maria of MSquared

S9 Bonus: The Scale-Stage Architecture Blueprint: Overthrowing Devops Debt and Scaling High-Velocity Engineering Organizations with Zach Goldberg, Author of The Startup CTO's Handbook

S9 E14: The DoorDash for Home Services: Overthrowing Legacy Service Friction and Engineering On-Demand Residential Maintenance Infrastructure with Mike Bifulco, Co-Founder & CTO of Craftwork

S9 E12: Bypassing NextJS/Nuxt Boilerplate: Implementing Serverless WYSIWYG Code Syncing and Nation-Scale Pandemic App Frameworks with Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect & Head of Velo by Wix

S9 Bonus: The Open-Source Security Fabric: Blasting Through Kubernetes Alert Noise and Engineering eBPF Runtime Protection with Shauli Rozen, Co-Founder & CEO of ARMO Security

S9 E9: The Connectivity-as-Code Paradigm: Bypassing Legacy VPN Subnet Chaos and Eliminating Public Attack Surfaces with Ryo Koyama, Co-Founder & CEO of Remote.it

S9 E8: The IoT Data Backbone: Engineering Ultra-Lightweight MQTT Architectures and Scaling Critical Edge Infrastructure with Roger Light, Creator of Eclipse Mosquitto & Co-Founder of Cedalo

S9 Bonus: The Open-Source Supply Chain Shield: Eliminating Malicious Dependencies and Automating Repository Governance with Craig McLuckie, Co-Creator of Kubernetes & CEO of Stacklok

S9 Bonus: The DataOps Democratization Blueprint: Overthrowing Airflow Infrastructure Overhead and Scaling Serverless Data Orchestration with Blake Burch, Founder & CEO of Shipyard

S9 E3: Embedded Lending Infrastructure and Navigating Emerging Market API Scaling with Reinis Simanovskis, Co-Founder & CPO of Finfra

S9 E2: The Embedded Payroll Fabric: Bypassing Legacy Monoliths with Developer-First Fintech APIs and Multi-State Compliance Rails with Juan Barroso, Co-Founder & CTO of Salsa

S8 Favorite: The ClickOps Cure: Automating Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Discovery and Code Drift with Sefi Genis, Co-Founder & Late CTO of Firefly

S8 Bonus: The Acquisition Playbook: Productizing DevOps Infrastructure and Scaling a 24/7 Cloud Operations Engine with Shaun Ritchie, CEO of nClouds

S8 E29: The 1.6 Million Host Blueprint: Treating Operating Systems Like SQL Tables and Engineering Open-Source Endpoint Security with Zach Wasserman, Co-Founder & CTO of Fleet

S8 E28: From Co-Creating AWS SWF and Uber Cadence to a $1.5B Tech Backbone: Building Fault-Tolerant Application State Rails with Maxim Fateev of Temporal

S8 E26: The Intranet Evolution: Engineering Block-Based No-Code Workflows and Scaling to 4,000+ Enterprise Clients with Josh Purvis, Co-Founder & CPO of Assembly

S8 Bonus: Clicks, Not Code: Architecting Automated Reference Data Versioning and Low-Code Release Management at Scale with Max Rudman of Prodly

S8 Bonus: The Code Dependency Revolution: Solving Open-Source Burnout and Engineering the teaRank Protocol with Max Howell, Creator of Homebrew & Founder of Tea

S8 Bonus: The Real-Time Metadata Graph: Moving Beyond Passive Data Catalogs to Automated, Event-Driven Governance with Shirshanka Das, Co-Founder of DataHub & CEO of Acryl Data

S8 Bonus: Shattering the Compliance Audit Toil: Engineering an Automated DevOps System of Record and Binary Provenance Engine with Mike Long, Co-Founder & CEO of Kosli

S8 Bonus: The Real-Time Infrastructure Masterclass: Bypassing HTTP Streaming Failures to Deliver Exactly-Once Data Sync at Global Scale with Matthew O'Riordan, Co-Founder & CEO of Ably