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The Tech Trek

The Tech Trek is a podcast about how founders, operators, and technology leaders build and scale technology companies. Each episode explores the decisions behind building products, teams, and technical organizations, with conversations spanning engineering, AI, data, product, hiring, leadership, and growth. Guests share what they are building, what they are learning, and how they are navigating the challenges that come with turning technology into a successful company.

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00:31:41

How Coding Agents Are Changing Machine Learning...

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/28

Machine learning teams are moving faster, but the hard part has not disappeared. The work is shifting from writing and debugging every line of code toward defining the right problem, setting requirements, reviewing outputs, and deciding what belongs in a durable platform.Niels Bantilan, Chief Machine Learning Engineer at Union AI, explains how machine learning work has changed, why coding agents are accelerating prototyping, and what engineers must consider when building infrastructure that supports

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00:27:31

How AI Is Reshaping Healthcare Revenue and Access

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/23

Healthcare providers can wait 60 to 75 days to get paid, while many hospitals spend 5% to 7% of revenue on the collection process. That makes revenue cycle management more than a back office issue. It affects margins, staffing, patient experience, and access to care.Akash Magoon, cofounder and CEO of Adonis, joins The Tech Trek to explain how agentic AI can help medical groups and hospitals automate denials, accounts receivable work, and other manual billing processes. He also shares how Adonis

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00:22:08

How AI Agents Are Rewriting Enterprise Analytics

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/21

Most companies are not short on data. They are short on the time, cost, and coordination required to turn it into action.Ethan Ding, co founder and CEO of TextQL, joins The Tech Trek to explain how AI agents are changing enterprise analytics. The conversation moves beyond faster dashboards into a larger shift, analysts managing fleets of agents, business teams asking far more questions, and companies finding revenue and cost opportunities that were previously too expensive to pursue.What Technical

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00:28:35

Scaling Enterprise AI Beyond the POC

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/16

Enterprise AI is easy to demonstrate. The real test begins when a promising POC meets production costs, security requirements, data movement, latency, and internal adoption.Shimon Ben-David, CTO at WEKA, joins Amir to discuss the gap between experimenting with generative AI and operating it at scale. They explore how classical AI differs from generative AI, why production exposes problems that demos hide, and how companies with limited AI maturity can start building useful internal

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00:34:37

How Todoist Is Rethinking Engineering With AI

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2026/07/14

AI can generate code faster, but that does not make software delivery simple. It shifts the pressure to requirements, architecture, review, and technical judgment.Goncalo Silva, CTO at Doist, explains how AI is changing the way teams behind Todoist and Twist build software. He shares why greater individual autonomy has led to more collaboration, why deep expertise still matters, and how faster execution is reshaping product delivery, project planning, and engineering hiring.What Leaders Can Take

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00:26:29

The Future of Engineering May Have Fewer Handoffs

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/09

AI is not just changing how engineers write code. It is changing who gets close enough to shape the work.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Robert Stewart, CTO at Arbital Health, joins Amir to talk about how AI is bringing actuarial subject matter experts closer to product and engineering teams, especially in healthcare and risk based contracts. Robert shares how his team is pairing technically minded SMEs with software engineers, using AI tools in development, and rethinking technical hiring now

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00:21:55

The Hard Part of Voice AI Is Not the Voice

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/07

Voice AI is moving from simple call routing into work that used to require trained human agents. The harder question is what happens when those conversations involve lending, collections, servicing, compliance, and real customer risk.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Amir Bormand speaks with Joshua March, founder and CEO of Veritus, about building AI voice agents for regulated financial services. Joshua shares why consumer lending is a demanding test case for voice AI, what makes regulated

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00:18:46

Why Healthcare AI Is So Hard to Ship

The Tech Trek ·

2026/07/02

Joanne Chen, VP of Data and AI at SimplePractice, joins The Tech Trek to talk about what it takes to build AI data products in a regulated, sensitive domain where privacy, consistency, monitoring, and customer trust have to be designed from the start.This conversation gets into why AI product development feels different from traditional software, how teams should think about quality control, and why not every valuable AI solution needs to be GenAI.Practical Takeaways• AI products need defense in

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00:24:36

Engineers Are Becoming AI Orchestrators

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2026/06/30

Kevin Haggard, Vice President of Engineering at Barracuda, joins The Tech Trek to talk about how AI is showing up across cybersecurity products, engineering workflows, team adoption, and software delivery culture. He shares how Barracuda is approaching AI with guardrails, why adoption varies across teams, and what happened when the company ran protected AI dev days for the engineering organization.What to take from this episode* AI adoption inside engineering teams will not be even. Some teams are

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00:26:43

Your Team Is Using AI Anyway

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/25

AI adoption is no longer just a policy conversation. For many organizations, the bigger question is how to move faster without creating avoidable risk.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Amir Bormand sits down with Aimee Cardwell, CIO and CISO in residence at Transcend, to talk about responsible AI deployment, the tension between speed and control, and how leaders should think about security, compliance, productivity, and customer experience as AI moves through the enterprise.Aimee brings a rare view

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00:26:31

What AI Agents Need Before Production

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/23

AI agents are easy to demo. They are much harder to trust, maintain, govern, and put into production.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Amir Bormand talks with Lucas Thelosen, CEO and cofounder at Gravity, about the agent economy, AI analytics, and what changes when analysts move from doing every task themselves to managing AI systems that create more bandwidth.Lucas shares why Gravity built Orion, an AI analyst, after years working in analytics, product, and data teams at companies like Looker and

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00:25:45

Yahoo CTO on AI, Engineering Velocity, and Why the...

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/18

Yahoo is not just adding AI on top of existing products. It is using AI across product experiences, internal tools, engineering workflows, and modernization efforts.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Lee Zen, CTO at Yahoo, joins Amir Bormand to talk about modernizing at massive scale, moving from on prem infrastructure to the cloud, rebuilding internal tools with AI, and how engineering organizations need to rethink process when agents can move faster than people.Lee also shares how Yahoo views AI as

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00:19:49

Why AI Founders Need to Say No Faster

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/16

Mike Choi wanted to work at Apple for years. Then he got there and had the moment many ambitious builders eventually hit.Is this the thing I was sprinting toward?In this episode of The Tech Trek, Mike Choi, co founder at Koah, shares his path from Korea to the United States, mandatory military service, Apple, Twitter, and eventually building Koah, an AI monetization company helping AI app builders create sponsored experiences.The conversation is less about the glamour of startups and more about what

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00:29:04

Why Sovereign AI Matters Now

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/11

AI is moving fast, but the bigger question for companies and governments may be control. Who owns the data, the workflow, the output, and the risk?In this episode, Amir talks with Shaun Modi, cofounder and CEO of Capitol AI, about sovereign AI, shadow AI, model dependency, government use cases, and why organizations need repeatable, governed, auditable workflows before AI becomes part of core operations.Shaun also brings a design lens to the conversation, connecting AI adoption to user experience,

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00:28:00

Healthcare AI Starts With Boring Problems

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/09

Most healthcare AI stories start with diagnosis. Edmund Jackson thinks that misses the real bottleneck.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Edmund Jackson, CEO and founder of Unity AI, joins Amir to talk about AI for healthcare operations. The conversation gets into why scheduling, staffing, follow up, payer coordination, and interoperability are often where healthcare breaks down, and why solving those operational problems may matter more than chasing the flashiest use cases.Edmund brings a healthcare

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00:26:44

AI Coding Agents Are Changing Engineering Teams

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/04

Deepak Bapat, CTO and co founder at Tabs, joins The Tech Trek to talk about how his team is using tools like Claude Code and Cursor, where AI is helping, and why systems thinking may matter more than raw coding ability as engineering work shifts.Practical Takeaways• AI coding agents are already producing useful production work, but judgment still matters.• Tool choice may be less important than standardizing the expected output.• Messy repos can make AI generated work harder to trust, so cleanup and

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00:29:42

Agentic AI Has a Data Layer Problem

The Tech Trek ·

2026/06/02

Agentic AI is not just a model problem. It is exposing gaps in how teams store, share, retrieve, and coordinate context across applications, agents, and people.In this episode, Amir talks with Karthik Ranganathan, cofounder and co CEO at Yugabyte, about why databases are under new pressure as AI moves from model serving into agentic workflows. They discuss Yugabyte’s evolution, the limits of today’s data infrastructure, and why memory, knowledge, and shared context may become central to how agentic

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00:37:47

When Agentic Coding Changes The Team

The Tech Trek ·

2026/05/29

Agentic coding is not just making engineers faster. It is changing how teams triage bugs, prototype features, involve product, and think about hiring.Scott Weller, CTO and founder at EnFi, joins The Tech Trek to talk about how his team is building around agentic software development while operating in financial services, where trust, accuracy, and human judgment still matter. EnFi uses AI agents to work through complex financial data rooms, extract knowledge, and support faster analysis in

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00:23:27

Data Teams Are Moving Beyond Dashboards

The Tech Trek ·

2026/05/27

AI adoption looks very different when mistakes can create legal, financial, and reputational risk.Vijay Gandra, Global CDO at Acrisure, joins The Tech Trek to talk about AI transformation inside a regulated industry, where explainability, data quality, governance, cost, and team readiness matter just as much as model capability.The conversation covers the trust gap in AI, how data teams are shifting from dashboard production to conversational data access, when to buy versus build, and why AI proof

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00:33:27

AI Is Changing Coding, Not Engineering

The Tech Trek ·

2026/05/22

Leonid Belkind, co founder and CTO at Torq, joins The Tech Trek to talk about what changes when an engineering organization does more than experiment with AI tools. Torq builds agentic security operations, and Leonid shares how his team is using AI across engineering, product, hiring, customer success, and go to market work.This conversation gets past the shallow version of “AI makes coding faster.” Leonid makes a clear distinction between coding and software engineering, and explains why the best

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