TL;DR: Bradley Friemel, Vertical CTO – Rentals at Fullsteam, explains how acquisition-driven growth creates complexity through multiple legacy codebases, heavy tech debt, and constant backlog pressure. He shares how his team launched an AI party planner for...
TL;DR: Mission is an AWS-only premier consulting partner (managed services, professional services, and resale) founded by combining three acquired businesses, later acquired by CDW. CTO Jonathan LaCour shares what makes integrations succeed, why “interrupts” slow...
TL;DR: Martin Mrugal, CEO of Alchemer, discusses how AI is accelerating product development and analytics while reinforcing the continued need for enterprise software governance and security. He emphasizes operationalizing customer feedback, maintaining human...
Graphika’s CEO Guyte McCord explains how AI is letting the company scale network intelligence by shifting from dashboard-heavy SaaS tooling to an AI “world model” plus agentic workflows. He talks about remote-first collaboration challenges, knowing when to pause and...
Todd Persen, CTO of Hydrolix, explains how the company handles massive real-time log data for observability and CDN and edge use cases, why he joined after previously building observability and log companies (including an exit to ServiceNow), and what Hydrolix is...
Coalition CTO Maha Virudhagiri explains how Coalition combines cyber insurance and cybersecurity, why he joined after seven years at Tesla, and what he changed to increase speed: tackling tech debt, reducing overplanning, and adjusting org design. He shares how...
