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Bryan Helmkamp and the trouble with good code
Good developers can still leave difficult software behind. From Code Climate to Qlty, Bryan Helmkamp has built a career around making the next change easier - and the evidence easier to use.
Harjot Gill Built a Career by Watching the Bottleneck Move
The CodeRabbit co-founder has spent years following software’s mess downstream. His latest bet is that when machines can write code at speed, judgment becomes the scarce ingredient.
Daksh Gupta Is Building the Bug Catcher for the Age of AI Code
A messy inherited codebase sent three Georgia Tech friends west. Now Gupta is betting that as AI writes more software, an independent reviewer becomes essential infrastructure.
Itamar Friedman
Itamar Friedman is the co-founder and CEO of Qodo (formerly CodiumAI), an AI platform built to review, test, and govern code so AI-generated software can ship safely. A Technion-trained machine learning engineer, he previously co-founded Visualead (acquired by Alibaba) and led Alibaba's machine vision work in Israel before starting Qodo in 2022. Under his leadership Qodo has raised roughly $120 million, including a $70 million Series B in March 2026, and counts enterprises like Nvidia, Walmart, and Intuit among its users.