Braintrust by Cortex
Ganesh Datta
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Okta's Dinesh Sukhija on meeting AI with AI, and the convergence of platform, SRE, and security
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Dinesh Sukhija, Director of Engineering at Okta, to discuss how AI is reshaping the relationship between platform engineering, SRE, and…
Why DevOps transformations fail in regulated industries, with Merge Ready's Matt Bailey
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare,…
Building a developer platform like a product: Inside The New York Times with Sneha Rao and Ahmed Bebars
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Sneha Rao, VP of Product, and Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer, both from The New York Times Developer Platforms team, to discuss what it means…
Rootly's Dan Sadler on why AI coding tools are driving more incidents and why reliability is the product
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Dan Sadler, VP of Engineering at Rootly. Dan explains how Rootly treats reliability as a product feature rather than just a technical metric, and…
From IC to VP: Engineering Leadership at Every Level, with Box's Tamar Bercovici
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box, who spent 15 years at the company growing from senior IC to leading its core platform organization, to…
Rob Zuber on quality, metrics, and what it means to move in the right direction at CircleCI
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. Rob shares how the industry's move away from dedicated QA has cost teams more than they realize, and explains how AI…
The platform engineering playbook for velocity, quality, and AI readiness at SIXT
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Boyan Dimitrov, CTO at SIXT. Boyan shares how SIXT went from releasing software once or twice a month to nearly 10,000 deployments per month, and…
How Thrive Market's SVP of Engineering thinks about reliability culture
In this episode of Braintrust, Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Randy Shoup, SVP of Engineering at Thrive Market. Randy shares lessons from his leadership roles across multiple…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Braintrust by Cortex has published 16 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.
Braintrust by Cortex is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 37m.
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