Building AI-native Payroll, Compliance and Benefits I Enginears Podcast

This week I’m delighted to introduce Ayush Sharma, Founder and CEO of Warp. Warp are building the next-gen, AI-native employee management platform for fast-growing companies. We are diving into Warp’s journey, why they are tackling the employee management space and more importantly the how behind their journey – it wouldn’t be an Enginears podcast if we aren’t breaking down the product and engineering challenges behind this. - 2 years in, closed $18M Series A, alongside YC, Dropbox C-level, Amjad (Replit) - crew of highly technical + product folks. - Understanding the friction points of the payroll ecosystem and how Warp are re-building this with a highly-technical, AI-native approach. - Scale, performance and fault-tolerancy challenges. - Ayush's product-first mindset and how he believes companies of 2025+ will build category defining companies. - Meta points around AI/LLM's If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushsharma01/ Careers: https://www.joinwarp.com/careers/rolesPowered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!There's a lot of rage in the AI-SRE space right now and I was keen to get some of the big players on the show to get under the hood of what they're building and the areas of focus. Playing the same game but approaches from different angles.- Hacking and building with his co-founder pre "AI"- Their thinking and anti-patterns behind building a traditional SaaS business and how they are so customer-obsessed.- What it really takes to serve mission-critical services + names like NVIDIA.- Building Rootly as an AI-first company to incubating their own research lab, to driving AI through sales/GTM.Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjrichardtang/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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An opportunity to sit down with Darragh to discuss the ideas and strategy behind building out Fin. - 10 year Intercom engineering leadership veteran sits down to discuss building out Fin – The #1 AI Agent for customer service.- Learning how to apply knowledge and industry to AI.- The challenges of building an AI native product from the ground up.- The important of building a world-class AI team and being non-negotiable with the profile of person.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/darraghcurran/https://www.intercom.com/careers/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Trusted by over 750k developers at some of the top engineerings companies globally like Netflix, NVIDIA, DoorDash + more, Warp are taking the AI development world by storm. Developers using Warp save on average an hour a day from unlocking the power of the terminal, steering agents with fine-grained control, and accomplishing more of their workflow from a single app.• Zach’s background in the early Google sheets days and bringing a true product/consumer mindset to engineering.• Inception of Warp and why he wanted to bring this to market.• A number of key pivots in the business in 2022 + 2024 found the team unlocking the value of LLM’s.• Why they are racing away as #1 coding agent, especially building in the terminal.• Adding $1M net revenue since April 2025 WEEKLY! If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/https://www.warp.dev/careers/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Outtake's cybersecurity agents secure digital identities at internet-scale.The agentic platform is always-on, constantly securing modern attack surfaces with advanced search, real-time threat classification, and autonomous response.- Outtake tackles the hardest problems of online identity and multimodal agentic AI in production.- More than 80% of internet traffic is now image or video. Outtake is building the infrastructure and workflows required to understand this tidal wave of rich media data and proactively protect against sophisticated digital threats at scale.We take a dive into the engineering challenges behind building the Outtake platform + their agents.They are hiring engineers, product, sales + GTM in NYC.You need to go and check these guys out.Careers: https://outtake.notion.site/Careers-at-Outtake-b58a4205553743dc8a5b9dc328e77143Guests:https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-promisel/https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomascintra/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiahui-j/https://www.outtake.ai/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro.43:25 - Enginears Outro.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaye/https://www.statsig.com/careers/ Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:01 - Vijaye Intro.02:51 - Why start Statsig?05:17 - Statsig Intro.09:51 - What has changed since starting the company in 2021?12:23 - How Statsig are able to make data driven decisions?15:32 - Day to day at Statsig.19:23 - Where have been some inflection points on the journey?22:28 - How do you take some of your customer's building strategy and implement into your own?25:18 - Quantification of data.27:28 - Where are companies going to be betting over the next 3-6 months time and how does that help direct your team as a leader?29:18 - How are Statsig looking to grow?31:29 - Vijaye & Statsig Outro.32:20 - Enginears Outro.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/spiros/https://resolve.ai/about-us#careers/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:12 - Spiros Intro.07:42 - Resolve AI Intro.13:13 - Engineering challenges at Resolve AI.20:42 - 'Your best engineers can be a bottleneck in your team' - what does this mean?22:47 - Where will AI projects will succeed and fail?25:01 - Where is Spiros placing bets for the next 3 - 6 months inside Resolve AI?26:51 - What types of people are Resolve AI looking for and where?30:51 - Spiros & Resolve AI Outro.31:30 - Enginears Outro.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/puiwah/https://farohealth.com/company/careers/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro.00:52 - Patrick Intro.03:36 - What is Patrick noticing in the narrative of AI?06:22 - Faro Health Intro.09:25 - How Faro Health are improving the speed and performance of clinical health?13:19 - Patrick's first couple of weeks at Faro Health as CTO.15:56 - What does applying AI look like in a compliance heavy environment and the challenges involved?19:20 - Using and deploying AI agents in the clinical trial process.22:12 - What is Patrick introducing into Faro Health's AI to improve speed and performance?24:27 - How would you advise teams to improve speed and performance of their own LLMs?26:21 - Patrick's experience building AI teams in general and within the Life Sciences space + any advice?30:02 - Where is Patrick placing bets in the next 3-6 months in the AI sphere?33:15 - What will the development of the AI coding tools do for the industry?38:24 - Where are Faro Health growing the business?39:33 - Patrick & Faro Health Outro.40:07 - Enginears Outro.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.