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Chapter № 024 Jun 25, 2026 •15:08

S12 E24 P2: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart

Startup Founder Product Development API Design System Design

Volodymyr Sydorenko lives in London, and collects mechanical keyboards. His most unusual hobby is that he does clay sculptures of characters, or random people at times. He has …

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Chapter № 024 Jun 23, 2026 •22:50

S12 E24 P1: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart

Startup Founder Product Development API Design System Design

Volodymyr Sydorenko lives in London, and collects mechanical keyboards. His most unusual hobby is that he does clay sculptures of characters, or random people at times. He has …

Chapter Jun 15, 2026 •15:57

Developer Chats – Pavel Shchekotov

Engineering Leadership Scaling Systems 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 Pavel Shchekotov, Founding Engineer …

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 17, 2025 •14:44

Developer Chats - Petr Petrenko

Engineering Leadership Infrastructure Scaling Systems 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 Petr Petrenko, Senior PHP …

Chapter Dec 08, 2025 •31:28

Developer Chats - Svyatoslav Babinets of Meta

Engineering Leadership Infrastructure Scaling Systems System Design

Today, we are kicking off a new series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves.In this episode, we are talking with Svyatoslav Babinets, …

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Chapter № 024 Nov 04, 2025 •30:50

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

Engineering Leadership Scaling Systems System Design AI Agents

Mrinal Wadhwa grew up in India with a Dad in the Armed Forces, so he moved around a lot. His mother was a teacher for 40+ years, and …

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Chapter № 005 Jun 24, 2025 •28:33

S11 E5: The Public Internet Bottleneck: Rebuilding the Physical Routing Layer for High-Performance Blockchains with Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero

Infrastructure Scaling Systems System Design

Austin Federa has a non-traditional path into the blockchain world. In college, he studied political & environmental science, and economics. Interestingly enough, those studies map a lot to …

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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

Startup Founder Software Architecture System Design

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 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

Startup Founder Software Architecture Automation System Design

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 …

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Chapter № 028 Oct 24, 2023 •20:32

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

Startup Founder Software Architecture System Design Real-Time Systems

Maxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Science. …

Chapter Sep 13, 2023 •32:55

S8 Bonus: The Data Asset Revolution: Moving Beyond Imperative Task Pipelines to Declarative Orchestration with Pete Hunt, Co-Founder of React & CEO of Dagster Labs

Startup Founder Data Engineering Automation System Design

Pete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in particular the 200m …