Anand Kulkarni is the CEO and co-founder of CoreStory, a Berkeley-based AI company that decodes legacy enterprise codebases - turning decades-old COBOL and other ancient software into living, queryable specifications. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and NSF PhD fellow out of UC Berkeley, he previously co-founded LeadGenius (Y Combinator S11) and built Crowdbotics into a platform serving Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies. In October 2025, CoreStory raised a $32 million Series A to modernize the world's mission-critical legacy software.
Michael Feathers is a software consultant, author, and Chief Architect at Globant whose 2004 book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' redefined how developers think about untested code - coining the now-universal definition that legacy code is simply code without tests. With over 25 years consulting hundreds of organizations, he pioneered dependency-breaking techniques that gave teams a way into codebases they feared. Today he explores how AI reshapes programming, writes the 'mechanisms' newsletter on Substack, and continues speaking at conferences worldwide.