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Parity built the machinery. Now comes the human part.
The engineers behind Polkadot spent a decade making blockchains work together. Their next test is whether people can use the result without needing a blockchain education.
GitKraken Made Git Visual. Now It Wants to Manage the AI Agents Making a Mess of It
A 30-day experiment became a visual Git client, then a 40-million-developer platform. Its next trick is less glamorous and more useful: keeping AI-written branches from colliding before humans can review them.
Dylan Etkin Measures the Moment Software Becomes Real
After helping Jira grow and watching Bitbucket scale, Dylan Etkin found the overlooked event that tells an engineering team whether its work matters: the deployment. Now he is applying the same practical instinct to AI skills, access and organizational memory.
Ramiro Berrelleza Wants Every Coder - Human or AI - to Have Somewhere Real to Work
A childhood encounter with office computers led from Guadalajara to Azure, Atlassian and a summer of hacking in Madrid. Now Okteto's co-founder is applying the same stubborn idea to AI agents: code improves when it can meet reality early.
Eli Schleifer Wants to Make Waiting for Code Feel Obsolete
After Microsoft, a startup sale to Google, and the machinery of Uber ATG, the Trunk founder has settled on a stubborn idea: growing software teams should not have to grow slower.
Abi Noda Has Spent a Career Measuring the Friction Everyone Else Learned to Ignore
Before developer productivity became an AI-era boardroom question, Noda was chasing stale pull requests in Slack. Two acquisitions, a research company, and one very practical book later, he is still asking what gets in the way of good work.
DX Made Developer Productivity Measurable - Then Atlassian Paid $1 Billion
DX built a business around a deceptively hard question: what actually helps software teams do better work? Its answer mixes machine data, human experience and enough research discipline to make a dashboard useful without turning it into a surveillance panel.
ReadMe
How a one-person side project with an owl mascot became the documentation layer for NVIDIA, Amazon, and thousands of other API companies - and why it stayed profitable while barely raising money.
Sagar Batchu
Sagar Batchu is the co-founder and CEO of Speakeasy, a San Francisco developer-tools company that turns OpenAPI specs into production-grade SDKs, Terraform providers, and MCP servers. A computational physicist by training who spent a decade building data infrastructure - including scaling LiveRamp's London engineering office from zero to 50+ engineers - he started Speakeasy in 2022 with Simon Yu to fix the unglamorous, error-prone work of shipping and consuming APIs. The company has raised roughly $29 million, including a $15 million Series A led by FPV Ventures, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, and Verizon among its users.
Code Climate
Code Climate is a New York-based software engineering intelligence company founded in 2011. It began with automated code review and quality analysis, grew into Velocity - an analytics platform that gives engineering leaders visibility into delivery, DORA metrics and team health - and has since repositioned around helping enterprise leaders measure and manage AI-native engineering transformation, pairing a data platform with Forward Deployed Engineers.
Qovery
Qovery is an internal developer platform and agentic Kubernetes management solution that lets engineering teams deploy and run production-grade infrastructure inside their own cloud accounts. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York with a remote team, it layers a Heroku-like developer experience on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and Scaleway - automating environment provisioning, ephemeral pull-request environments, and day-2 Kubernetes operations so developers can ship without becoming DevOps experts. The company raised a $13M Series A in 2025 and is used by tens of thousands of developers across more than 100 countries.
Josh Knowles
Josh Knowles is the CEO of Code Climate, the New York software company whose Velocity platform gives engineering leaders at large organizations data on how their teams actually build software. A Ruby developer by training with more than two decades in the field, he spent years at Pivotal Labs and VMware building and running consulting and application-services teams across the US and Europe before joining Code Climate, rising from VP of Strategy and Operations to General Manager to CEO. He took the top job as Code Climate spun out its code-quality product into a separate company, Qlty Software, and refocused entirely on software engineering intelligence for large, complex enterprises.
Faros AI
Faros AI is an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that pulls data from the tools software teams already use - GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, incident systems and more - and turns it into a single view of how engineering work actually flows. Founded by the ex-Salesforce team that built Einstein, Faros helps engineering leaders measure DORA metrics, track delivery, quantify the ROI of AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, and automate R&D cost capitalization across the full software development lifecycle.
Sleuth
Sleuth is a San Francisco software company founded by former Atlassian engineers who helped build Jira and Bitbucket. It began as a 'mission control' platform for continuous delivery, giving engineering teams automated DORA metrics and deployment tracking, then expanded into governing AI inside organizations. Its current product, Sleuth Skills, lets companies define agent skills, rules, prompts and MCP servers once and distribute them - with approval workflows, audit trails and access controls - across AI clients like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini and Codex. Sleuth has raised roughly $25M, including a $22M Series A led by Felicis in 2022.
Speakeasy
Speakeasy is a San Francisco developer-infrastructure company that turns an OpenAPI specification into production-grade, type-safe SDKs across ten-plus languages, then keeps them in sync automatically as the API changes. Founded in 2022 by Sagar Batchu and Simon Yu, it has expanded from SDK and Terraform-provider generation into an AI control plane for the Model Context Protocol - products like Gram and the MCP Gateway let companies expose their APIs as governed tools for AI agents. Speakeasy has raised roughly $26 million, including a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures in 2024, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, Clerk, Kong, Fivetran, Airbyte, and SolarWinds among its customers.
Trunk
Trunk is a San Francisco developer-tools company building a suite that keeps continuous integration reliable at scale. Its two flagship products - a parallel Merge Queue that batches and tests many pull requests at once, and Flaky Tests, which automatically detects and quarantines unreliable tests - target the bottlenecks that slow engineering teams as they ship more code, increasingly with AI assistance. Founded in 2021 by ex-Uber and ex-Google engineers, Trunk raised a $25M Series A led by Initialized Capital in 2022 and counts Brex, Faire, Zillow, and Gusto among its users.
Romaric Philogène
Romaric Philogène is the CEO and co-founder of Qovery, a platform-engineering company that turns cloud infrastructure into a self-service experience for developers. A former site reliability engineer with a decade in ad-tech and financial systems, he started Qovery in 2019 with Pierre Mavro and Morgan Perry and, in September 2025, raised a $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners, with angel checks from Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish is a Boston-based Engineering Management Platform that turns the signals from engineering tools - Git, Jira, CI/CD, and now AI coding assistants - into business-readable insight. It helps engineering leaders see where their teams spend time, tie that work to company strategy, automate R&D cost capitalization, and measure the real ROI of tools like GitHub Copilot. Founded by veterans of Endeca, Jellyfish has raised roughly $117M and serves hundreds of enterprises including Mastercard, Priceline, and PagerDuty.
Zach Lloyd
Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the Rust-based terminal that grew up into an agentic development environment. A former Google principal engineer who led the Docs and Sheets teams, he looked at the one tool every programmer touches and noticed it had barely changed in 40 years. Warp's answer: a command line that reads natural language, runs AI agents, and as of 2025 codes by prompt. The company has raised roughly $73-75M from Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field and Elad Gil, and went from its first $1M of ARR in 300-plus days to adding $1M every few days.
Dan Temkin
Dan Temkin is a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at Kong (formerly Mashape), one of the world's leading API management platforms. With over a decade of experience in API strategy spanning roles at IBM and Kong, Temkin sits at the intersection of complex distributed systems and the business language needed to explain them. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he shapes how enterprises think about API security, AI governance, and the economics of running LLMs at scale - authoring widely-read Kong blog posts, speaking at Apidays and AWS re:Invent, and helping translate the architecture of Kong's $424M-funded platform into decisions that matter to engineering and executive teams alike.
Hans Dockter
Hans Dockter is the founder and CEO of Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle build tool - downloaded over 23 million times per month - and Develocity, an enterprise developer toolchain observability platform. A German-born physicist-turned-software-engineer, he co-created Gradle in 2008 out of personal frustration with existing build systems, transforming it into one of the most widely adopted build automation tools in software development. Under his leadership, Gradle Technologies has raised $53.2M in total funding and grown to 170+ employees, serving enterprises including Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, and Airbnb.
Cassidy Williams
Cassidy Williams is a Chicago-based software engineer, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, and one of the most recognizable voices in the frontend developer community. Known online as @cassidoo, she runs the widely-read weekly newsletter 'rendezvous with cassidoo,' builds mechanical keyboards, mentors early-career engineers, and has spoken everywhere from TED stages to the United Nations. She's a Glamour '35 Women Under 35 Changing the Tech Industry' honoree, a LinkedIn Top Professional, and a firm believer that you get a lot by giving.
Charlie Guo
Charlie Guo is a Stanford and YC alum who turned a personal obsession with AI into a 23,000-subscriber newsletter and a Developer Experience role at OpenAI. Through Artificial Ignorance at ignorance.ai, he writes at the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence - cutting through hype to deliver practical, hands-on insights for builders. He has co-founded multiple startups (ClassOwl, FanHero, Crowdmade), published a book of startup interviews called Unscalable, and created a widely-used Python library for Gmail with 1.8k GitHub stars - all while teaching himself AI engineering through relentless experimentation.
Lee Robinson
Lee Robinson is a developer educator and engineering leader who spent five years at Vercel scaling Next.js to over a million monthly active developers, rising from individual contributor to VP of Developer Experience. He now serves as Head of AI Education at Cursor, teaching developers how to build software with AI-powered tools. Known for creating free courses like Mastering Next.js and React 2025, his newsletter 'Optimism (for the web)' and 234K+ Twitter following reflect his belief that great technology should be easy to understand and interesting to learn.
Sarah Drasner
Sarah Drasner is a Senior Director of Engineering at Google, where she leads the Core Developer Web Infrastructure powering Search, YouTube, Gmail, and Workspace. A rare hybrid of fine artist turned technologist, she spent 15+ years shaping how the web moves - as a Vue.js core team member, staff writer at CSS-Tricks, creator of the Night Owl VS Code theme (used by millions), and author of both 'SVG Animations' (O'Reilly) and 'Engineering Management for the Rest of Us'. Before Google, she was VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and a Principal Lead at Microsoft Azure. She is an award-winning speaker, teacher on Frontend Masters, and co-organizer of ConcatenateConf, a free conference for Nigerian and Kenyan developers.
Surma
Surma (known online as @DasSurma) is a Principal Software Engineer at Shopify focused on developer experience and monorepo architecture. A former Google Chrome Team Web Advocate, he is best known for making WebAssembly and Web Workers approachable through open-source tools like Comlink (12k+ GitHub stars), Squoosh, and PROXX. He co-hosts the 'Off The Main Thread' podcast with Jake Archibald and publishes deep technical articles at surma.dev. Based in Bristol, UK, Surma has spent his career removing the friction between developers and the harder parts of the web platform.