Enginears

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 into Obin AI and the problem spaceo “Finance requires repeatability. Obin AI looked at why agentic AI is working in coding and used it as inspiration to build themselveso “Customers Outcomes” and what production looks like at scaleWhat Obin AI are building forWho Obin AI are building foro Walk us through the relationship between Finance <> AgentsChallengesBuilding primitivesRemoving manual workflowsAccuracy / Resiliencyo Walking us through some of the engineering challengeso Walking us through “the future of finance <> AI/Agents” in your eyesObin AI's hiring and growthIf you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valliappalakshmanan/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 underpin the network (Payments, AI, Product, Network)The incumbernt and what's being disruptedThe network and why/how it's being builtThe agentic layer and some of the value unlocks and challengesHardest challenges they're solvingEngineering culture and business strengthHiring in SF/NYC.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-jadot-00063426/ + https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-sheller/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 DOSS are re-building ERP from the ground up; There's a great SDLC analogy they stand by.Arnav helps us understand what “great” looks like for DOSS.Understanding some of the engineering challenges, particularly around data, the right data and scale at DOSS.How do engineers think in the abstract ways to build ANY business application.Building blocks, pattern matching, distribured systems, folder builders, UI/UX, agents, Distributed systems etcArnav helps us understand what/if any challenges you’ve walked into with the rise of: AIDeploying custom built software / module based, low-code software- From a technology/customer standpoint – where are you placing bets on the next 6-12 months?- Hiring and growth at DOSS and why you should join?If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnav-mishra/DOSS Blog: https://www.doss.com/eng-blogPowered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 are building and why.- OSS + AI Models; Why Fireworks are so passionate about model quality, it’s improvements and customer centricity.- Where’s model speed, quality etc moving towards in the next 6 months?- What are your bets for “AI” for the next 3-6 months? (Feel free to choose the path we can this down)If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benny-yufei-chen-2238575a/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 are tackling.Hypha is an AI-native asset intelligence platform designed for the modern investor that transforms fragmented investment workflows into structured, actionable insights across the asset lifecycle,Core use cases and the evolvement of the space coupled with AI (discussing pivots and ICP's)Key engineering challenges in AI-native financial infrastructureBalancing speed vs reliabilityAgents + ToolingEngineering CultureHiringIf you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-sheppard/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.