Introducing Braintrust
How do you balance speed and quality when your customers are counting on you? What does it actually take to build a culture of reliability? And how should engineering leaders think about AI when it's changing everything about how we ship software?
On Braintrust, Ganesh Datta, CTO and Co-founder of …
Navigating the path from startup speed to enterprise scale
In the first episode of the Cortex podcast, co-founders Anish Dhar and Ganesh Datta pull back the curtain on the journey of building an internal developer portal from the ground up. They share the story of the early days, when the unproven market required moving at maximum velocity to find product-…
Canva's strategic approach to internal developer tools and why they should spark joy
Tyler Davis, a software engineer at Canva, joins Ganesh Datta to explore how internal tools can be a source of joy and leverage for engineering teams. Tyler shares Canva's multi-year journey building their internal developer portal on Backstage, the moment they realized scorecards could transform o…
How Google Cloud's DORA is helping teams balance AI acceleration with engineering fundamentals
Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA research program at Google Cloud, joins Ganesh Datta to explore how AI is reshaping software delivery—and why the fundamentals matter more than ever. Nathen shares insights from DORA's 2025 report on AI adoption, the surprising finding that AI acts as an amplifier …
Why the "artisanal" approach to coding is holding engineering teams back
This week, Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta discusses the evolution of platform engineering with Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO and co-founder of Humanitec. Kaspar draws a sharp contrast between the "artisanal" method of software development and the industrialized approach required for modern enter…
Why production readiness at Xero starts with the customer, not the checklist
Fred Mare, a principal engineer at Xero, joins Ganesh Datta to explore why production readiness should be framed around the customer experience rather than internal operational concerns. Fred shares Xero's approach to confidence scores—a signal that aggregates quality metrics, change size, and test…
Doctors Won’t Tell You This: Most Chronic Diseases Are Preventable
In this episode of the Sapient Podcast, Ganesh Datta speaks with health and wellness coach Tess Cheng about why most modern health problems are rooted in lifestyle — not genetics or bad luck.
With over 15 years of experience in nutrition and coaching, Tess explains why sleep, food quality, movement…
How to shift engineering culture by focusing on incentives, not mandates
Jeff Schnitter, Solution Architect at Cortex and former developer experience leader at Workday, joins Ganesh Datta to explore why changing engineering culture requires starting with pain points rather than jumping to solutions. Jeff shares his experience shifting from a standardization mindset to a…
Unwinding the trillion dollar mistake of over-engineered microservices
Steve Evans, former SVP of Engineering at Chegg, joins Ganesh Datta to explore why the microservices revolution created a new class of hidden costs that most engineering organizations never see coming. Steve shares his firsthand experience watching a 300-person org slowly get dragged down by an exp…
AI Didn't Change the Game, It Just Exposed Your Bottlenecks w/ Ganesh Datta (CTO, Cortex)
Every engineering org says they want to improve reliability — but most can't even agree on what "good" looks like. Ganesh Datta, Co-Founder and CTO of Cortex, has spent the better part of a decade helping companies confront that gap. In this conversation, Ganesh makes the case that platform enginee…
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