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Swarmia wants your code to spend less time waiting
The Finnish engineering intelligence company follows the queues, handoffs, and habits that slow software teams down. Now it is asking whether AI makes the whole operation faster - or merely produces more work for the queue.
Tara AI and the Work Hiding Between the Tickets
A recruiting startup became a project planner, then asked a better question: what happens after the sprint board says the work is done? Tara AI follows the trail from ticket to pull request to release.
The Company That Put a Stopwatch on Code Turned It Toward AI
Software.com began by measuring the minutes developers could actually code. Now called Antenna, it asks a more expensive question: what does a company get back for its AI bill?
Lauren Knausenberger and the Fine Art of Making Government Software Move
A teenage cryptography internship led to a bar-napkin pitch, a $17 billion technology portfolio and a career-long campaign against software that arrives after the moment has passed.
Robert Slaughter Found the Pentagon's Missing Update Button
An Air Force physicist watched a promising AI project get stranded between a spreadsheet and an aircraft. His answer was Defense Unicorns - an unusually cheerful company built to make military software move at operational speed.
Ted Elliott Wants Software to Ship Before Dinner
After 18 years building software inside the Salesforce ecosystem, Copado’s CEO has reduced the future of DevOps to two human ambitions: fewer broken releases and more dinners at home.
Builder.ai promised apps on demand. Then the money ran out.
An AI assistant, reusable code and human developers were supposed to make custom software easy to order. Builder.ai’s collapse exposed how much depended on the people, the promises and the cash behind the screen.
Opsera Is Building the Air-Traffic Control for AI-Written Software
AI can write code in seconds. Opsera is betting the valuable business is controlling what happens next - the tests, security gates, deployments, costs and proof that all that speed actually helped.
Jim Rose Has Spent Six Startups Hunting for the Flicker
Before CircleCI became the factory floor for digital goods, its CEO learned entrepreneurship through copy machines in China, a group-buying patent, a vanished Facebook growth engine, and one stubborn mobile testing problem.
Jyoti Bansal Is Building the Factory After the Code
He waited seven years for permission to start. Then he sold AppDynamics on the eve of its IPO, discovered retirement was a poor fit, and returned to the workbench. Now Harness is his attempt to organize everything that happens after code.
CircleCI
CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that automates the build, test, and deployment of software. Founded in San Francisco in 2011, it runs tens of millions of workflows for engineering teams who want faster, more reliable pipelines without maintaining their own build infrastructure. It does not host code or track tickets - it focuses on being a fast, dependable runner of builds and, increasingly, on validating AI-generated code at scale.
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.
Kevin Gounden
Kevin Gounden is the Chief Executive Officer of Buildkite, the CI/CD platform trusted by Airbnb, Uber, Shopify, Slack, and Canva to ship software at scale. Appointed in August 2025, he brings over two decades of experience founding and scaling SaaS ventures, most recently as Chief Product Officer at Lightcast and Randstad where he drove product strategy across 70+ countries. His mandate at Buildkite: lead the platform's next chapter at the intersection of AI and software delivery.
Yevgeniy Brikman
Yevgeniy 'Jim' Brikman is the co-founder of Gruntwork and one of the most influential voices in infrastructure-as-code. Author of three O'Reilly books — 'Terraform: Up & Running' (now in its 3rd edition), 'Hello, Startup', and 'Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery' (2025) — he has spent 15+ years building infrastructure that served hundreds of millions of users at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial. At Gruntwork, he helped pioneer the idea of treating infrastructure like software: testable, reusable, and versioned.