Why AI Isn't Actually Making Eng Teams Faster

In this episode of 1 IDEA, Suresh Mathew sits down with Sashanka Vishnuvajhala (SVP of Engineering @ Fanatics) to break down why and how he rebuilt the entire pipeline from spec to production.

Is Your CI/CD Pipeline Actually Working?

Satya Singeetham (CTO @ New Horizon Bank) is a world-leading expert on CI/CD Pipelines. In this episode of 1 IDEA, he explains how to build a world-class CI/CD setup in 2026.

Validate Your ML Training Data Before Production Does It for You

On this episode of 1 IDEA, Eugene Fratkin (VP of Engineering @ Salesforce) breaks down why ML training data fails in production and what to validate before you ship.

How 30 Years of Tech Prepared This CTO For AI

On this episode of 1 IDEA, Suresh Mathew sits down with Kevin Trilli (CPTO @ FIS Amount) to unpack his playbook for getting ahead of technology transitions, like the AI era.

How We Solved the GPU Problem for Kubernetes

We solved GPU optimization. In this episode of 1 IDEA, Suresh Mathew sits down with Pooja Malik, Distinguished Engineer at Sedai, to talk through how Sedai's engineering team built GPU optimization from scratch, why the standard metrics fail, and what's still unsolved.

The Startup Within A Startup Playbook

John Wang (Co-Founder @ Assembled) did what most companies talk about but rarely pull off: he spun up a four-person AI team inside an existing company, ran it like a YC startup, and hit millions in ARR in 18 months. But the board was angry, the org nearly split, and the sales team couldn't sell the product.

How To Prepare For The Next AWS Outage

In this episode of 1 IDEA, Suresh Mathew sits down with Preeti Somal (SVP of Engineering @ Temporal) to unpack how her team prepared for a failure they knew was coming and how other engineering leaders can do the same.

The 23-Minute Playbook for On-Prem Products

Gil Feig (CTO @ Merge) took on what everyone warned him not to: on-premises deployment. 18 weeks to first customer, and a support model that could sink the company.

How 4 Engineers Shipped AWS's Fastest Product Launch

Ashish Jha (now Director of Engineering @ Drata) built AWS Audit Manager — one of AWS's fastest-growing services ever — launching in 15 months with 1,000 customers turning it on in the first 24 hours.

How To Ship Features 83% Faster

What happens when AI starts modifying production code faster than your design process can keep up?

The Runtime Trick Behind Salesforce's UI Overhaul | Kevin Hill

Kevin Hill, VP of Engineering @ Salesforce, shares how backing his team’s “impossible” ideas led to the one idea that unlocked Salesforce’s UI overhaul.

The 5 AI Guardrails that Actually Worked | Rachit Lohani

Rachit Lohani (fmr. CTO @ Paylocity) breaks down why AI productivity metrics fail — and the guardrails that make AI actually useful.