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Chapter Sep 03, 2026 •24:12

E13 Bonus: From Airbnb's Chronon Engine to Enterprise Real-Time Feature Compute with Varant Zanoyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Zipline AI

Engineering Leadership AI & Machine Learning Software Architecture Scaling Systems LLM & Generative AI AI Agents

Varant Zanoyan was born in Washington DC, and grew up there and in Switzerland as well. He now lives in the Bay Area, specifically San Mateo. He's spent …

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Chapter № 002 Sep 01, 2026 •35:23

S13 E2: Securing Enterprise GenAI: Data Privacy & Security Guardrails with Steven Walchek, Founder & CEO of Liminal

Engineering Leadership AI & Machine Learning Security & Compliance Software Architecture Enterprise Software Identity & Access

Steven Walchek is originally from the Bay Area in California, but lives in Denver now. He's been there for 8 years with his family. He comes from a …

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Chapter № 003 Aug 26, 2026 •27:56

S13 Bonus: Why Local On-Device AI Compute is the Future of Privacy with Behnam Bastani, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenInfer

AI & Machine Learning Software Architecture Scaling Systems

Behnam Bastani is originally from Tehran, Iran. He left the country at the age of 17, setting out for Canada, where he got his Masters and PhD, before …

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Chapter № 001 Aug 25, 2026 •26:55

S13 E1: The Token Winter Is Coming: Why Code Inflation Fails to Ship Real Business Value with Dave Garcia, Founder & Co-CEO of Pensero

Engineering Leadership AI & Machine Learning Developer Tools Software Architecture Scaling Systems DevOps

Dave Garcia is originally from Barcelona, and recently moved stateside, to the East Coast. He started coding when he was 7 years old, on a Commodore 64, in …

Chapter Mar 04, 2026 •27:33

Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota

Engineering Leadership Software Architecture System Design

Today, we are continuing our series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves.In this episode, we are talking with Oleksandr Piekhota, Principal Software …

Chapter Dec 30, 2025 •32:59

S11 Favorite: The API Sprawl Cure: Moving Beyond GraphQL Federation to Composable, Type-Safe API Gateways for the Agentic Era with Jens Neuse, Founder of WunderGraph

Software Architecture API Design AI Agents

Jens Neuse grew up in Germany, originally planning to be a carpenter. In his 2nd year as an apprentice, he was in a motorcycle wreck that thrust him …

Chapter Sep 11, 2025 •31:09

S11 Bonus: The Cloud Tax & The 10,000 JVM Milestone: Why Performance Optimization is the Only Way to Scale Enterprise AI Without Blowing Your Budget with Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul

Software Architecture API Design System Design

Simon Ritter has been in the IT industry for 40 years. He went from university to work on Unix in the early days, employed by AT&T and programming …

Chapter May 20, 2025 •25:53

S10 Favorite: Securing Intellectual Property, Minimizing Exit Risks, and Navigating Regulatory Scrutiny in the SDLC with Matt Van Itallie, Founder & CEO of Sema

Security & Compliance Software Architecture Compliance & Privacy

Matt Van Itallie is the son of a math teacher and a coder - so this explains why he now uses code as data. He is a proud …

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Chapter № 007 Oct 15, 2024 •28:54

S10 E7: The Tablet Graveyard: Consolidating Third-Party Delivery Chaos into a Unified POS Architecture with Vishal Agarwal, Founder & CEO of Checkmate

Product Development Software Architecture

Vishal Agarwal was born in India, and did his schooling in Darjeeling. He noted that this city exports some of the best tea in the world! Prior to …

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Chapter № 030 Jun 25, 2024 •29:15

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

Infrastructure Software Architecture DevOps System Design

Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the internet …

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Chapter № 012 Feb 20, 2024 •21:41

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

Developer Tools Software Architecture Cloud Architecture

Yoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in Tel Aviv, and has spent 30 years in technology. He studied …

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Chapter № 030 Nov 07, 2023 •23:15

S8 E30: The Modernization Factory: Overcoming a $1.5 Trillion Technical Debt and Automating Monolith-to-Microservice Extraction with Moti Rafalin, Co-Founder & CEO of vFunction

Software Architecture Scaling Systems

Moti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father …