Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Michael Lopp

Michael Lopp is an engineering leader known as Rands, whose human-centered view of software organizations includes “Shields Down” and the “Stables and Volatiles” dynamic, revealing why people and systems can stall even when the code compiles.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Milin Desai

Milin Desai, Sentry CEO and former VMware general manager, argues that developer productivity depends on developer happiness, and that engineering tools should deliver code-level context rather than merely operational alerts, especially as infrastructure and AI reshape software work.
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Lessons from Dennis Pilarinos

Dennis Pilarinos built Buddybuild and Unblocked, framing the central weakness of AI coding tools as context engineering: without a company’s organizational knowledge, even capable systems struggle to support developers, engineering teams, and the realities of startup building.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Shachar Hirshberg

Shachar Hirshberg is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and Artemis CEO who previously led product management for Amazon GuardDuty and helped build security automation at Demisto, studying modern threat detection, the inevitable-breach mindset, and effective engineering management.
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Lessons from Dan Shiebler

Dan Shiebler, co-founder and CTO of Artemis and former machine learning head at Abnormal Security, builds security platforms around autonomous agents, using system architecture and adversarial machine learning to expose the structural limits of static, rules-based defenses.
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Lessons from Anastasis Germanidis

Anastasis Germanidis, Runway co-founder and co-CEO, directs generative video models including Gen-4 and Gen-4.5 while exploring world simulation, artist-centered interfaces, and modern visual storytelling.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Jack Krawczyk

Jack Krawczyk is a product manager who built consumer experiences at Pandora and WeWork before leading Google’s Bard and Gemini, developing a framework for probabilistic products that helps teams launch and design around AI systems that guess and hallucinate.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Mike Boufford

Mike Boufford, Greenhouse’s first engineering hire and eventual CTO, spent a decade scaling its team and platform, pairing structured, fair hiring with a pragmatic rejection of zero employee turnover as the ideal for engineering organizations.

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