📽️ Our Software Engineer, Weili Gu, brings a decade of experience building core infrastructure at companies like Amazon and Snowflake to our fast-moving team at Resolve AI.
She shares what drew her to Resolve AI, how we approach deep technical challenges, and why this is one of the most exciting places to build systems that matter.
At Resolve AI, we're pushing the boundaries of what software can do in production—and engineers like Weili are leading the way.
Excited to welcome @ProdanStatev to the team! 🎉
Prodan joins us from Braintrust, where he helped teams design and scale their LLM evaluation workflows. Before that, he spent 4.5 years at Snowflake, working with data application customers as part of the sales team—and even
Proud to be featured in the latest @BusinessInsider article spotlighting the transformative potential of AI agents in tech.
The piece explores how companies are reshaping the future of software development through innovative AI solutions. Read more about the evolving landscape and promising startups in the full piece in the comments below
The end of the year is the best time for startup employees to disconnect and recharge.
It’s more of a marathon than a sprint. It’s important to move fast but it’s also equally important to take breaks for mental and physical health.
Christmas and New Years is the easiest and best time to take a break as many people we work with are also off so there is no external pressure and it’s easier to disconnect.
If you’re not already logging off this week, I hope you start soon.
Let’s all take the time off we need before we start back up again with renewed energy in 2025.
📢 We caught up with Frank Rosner, a Technical SRE Leader at @DataStax, who shared some invaluable wisdom for engineers new to on-call rotations. Here are his key pieces of advice for success:
• Preparation is everything - invest time in learning your systems, maintain clear runbooks, and practice with on-call drills in lower environments. Getting hands-on experience is crucial.
• Don't hesitate to escalate - having an escalation path is vital, and there's no shame in using it. Delaying resolution to figure things out alone doesn't benefit anyone.
• Master your tools - keep relevant source code repositories open in your IDE, bookmark essential runbooks and documentation, and create aliases/scripts for common tasks to streamline your workflow.
• Take care of yourself - learn to compartmentalize, use techniques like Pomodoro for focus, alternate between sitting and standing, and remember to log off in the evening. Your wellbeing directly impacts your effectiveness.
Really appreciated Frank's practical insights on balancing operational readiness with personal wellbeing. What resonates most with you from his advice?
A big part of a founder's job is selling, and the best way of selling is storytelling.
Not just the product - you're selling:
• Vision to recruits
• Potential to investors
• Trust to customers
And here's the kicker: You're usually asking people to do something unreasonable.
That's why great founders master storytelling, and if not, your job will be very hard.
Models have been largely trained on all the publicly available data. The next frontier is proprietary data and the applications these will unlock in Enterprise Agentic AI.
Last week at AWS re:invent, @resolveai together with @greylockvc organized an event on how Agentic AI accelerates software engineering.
It brought together an exceptional group of engineering leaders across industries. Attendees included leaders from @awscloud, @nvidia, @blendlabsinc, @opendoor, @automationanytw, @coinbase, @genesys, @guidewire_pandc, ISS A/S, @rubrikInc, @sierraplatform, @splunk, and many more.
The discussions reaffirmed that we are on the brink of a transformative era in software engineering, driven by AI.
Here are some key takeaways:
✨ Wide adoption of coding co-pilots but how about coding agents? Code auto-completion is everywhere, the question now becomes how far is Agentic AI going to go in coding? Will we even be using IDEs 1-2 years from now?
✨ 10 years of running software for every 2 years of building. This is the quote one of the attendees shared with me. The insight is that no matter how much we accelerate coding, we won’t go much faster unless software operations – such as incident troubleshooting and remediation – are also highly automated.
✨ The understanding of Agentic AI has matured dramatically throughout 2024: In discussion earlier this year I would face a lot of skepticism on whether Agentic AI can do the work of a developer or SRE. Now the discussion has moved on to how this will happen.
A special thank you to @corinnemriley and the team at Greylock for partnering with us in organizing the event.
The next one is going to be in SF in January. If you are interested to join please DM me.
@maynkag is one of the smartest people I know and I'm very happy to be building another company with him.
I have known Mayank for 20 years. He was one of the first people I met in grad school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the international student orientation.
We were in the same year in the CS PhD program, we took classes together and he was even my TA for Computer Architecture! The impression I had of him through these interactions is that he was brilliant.
When I started my first company I tried several times to convince Mayank to join us but I was unsuccessful.
Eventually, and after quite a few attempts, I convinced him to join our team at VMware after we got acquired by them. Since then, we have worked together in 4 different companies, including 2 that we co-founded.
Finding a co-founder that you can work well with, trust fully and also have fun while doing is what it takes!
Photo from when Omnition was a 2 person company.
Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern infrastructure, yet its complexity can leave teams grappling with noisy alerts and elusive root causes.
Our latest blog describes how our Agentic AI accelerates troubleshooting and remediation of Kubernetes issues.
Seerut goes into more detail in our most recent blog →
KubeCon 2024 Highlights!
We had an amazing time at #KubeCon2024 earlier this month, connecting with the incredible on-call engineering community.
We asked experienced engineers for their best advice for tackling your first on-call rotation.
Check out the video to see what they had to say!
Welcome Connor Buth to Resolve AI! 🎉
Connor joins us from Intel and Lacework. We’re excited to see the impact he’ll make as we tackle big challenges and scale rapidly.
Welcome to Resolve, Connor!
It's been 20 years since I moved to the US.
I really thought I’d return to Greece after just a few years.
But in the US, I have been granted ample opportunities to grow, build, and try new things.
I don’t think there is any other place in the world where an immigrant could start four businesses and not face any friction.
In fact, my story is not unique. None of my co-founders in the four companies I started were born in the US either.
The US, and more specifically, the Bay Area is hands down the best place in the world for anyone who wants to work in technology or start a tech company. I feel fortunate I’ve been able to live in this innovative environment for the past 20 years.
I am grateful to my 22-year-old self for making this move and sticking with it. Here’s to 20 more!
I turned down Google in 2005 as a gift to my 75-year-old self.
After my first year in the PhD program, I interned at Google.
Back then, Google had just IPO’d and it was THE tech company everyone wanted to join. I was lucky to receive an offer, which I accepted. Then, I went back to Illinois to finish my Master’s before joining full-time.
While in Illinois, I stumbled upon an opportunity to start a company with my advisor and two other PhD students. I faced a big dilemma: should I start a company, or should I join 2005 Google?
It came down to the following question:
“Which choice would my 75-year-old self regret?”
And I knew the answer immediately: I would regret not starting a company. So I took the seemingly harder and less prestigious path.
Eighteen years later, I’m immensely glad I did. Being an entrepreneur is the hardest but most incredibly fulfilling journey I could have imagined.
Until today, this is still how I make my most difficult decisions: always optimize for the upside, even if it’s the harder path.
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