On The Frontier

Shomik Ghosh
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A podcast series exploring all things on the frontier of what's possible in technolgy. We'll interview experts from all areas including startups, investors, industry execs and deep dive into specific tech trends. shomik.substack.com

  1. 10/31/2025

    Building AI Infra at Cloudflare - Dane Knecht (CTO, Cloudflare)

    Cloudflare has retained exceptional talent, continued shipping products at a rapid scale even as they’ve grown to a $80B+ valuation, and are positioned as a leading developer platform for the agentic era with Workers. One of the key individuals who has guided this effort has been Dane Knecht, CTO at Cloudflare and the first PM hired when In this episode we dive into the following areas: * Lava Lamps! * Cloudflare’s Culture from Day 1 * Enterprise & Individual Developer Focus * Deep Dive into the Workers Platform * Building Agents on Workers * Serverless vs Long Running Agents * Durable Objects (and how it was almost named Agents!) * Cloudflare Scheduling and Optimization Engine Under the Hood * Where Agent Development is Headed Where to Find Dane: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dknecht/ * Twitter: https://x.com/dok2001 Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    39 min
  2. Identity in the Age of AI - Arnab Bose (Chief Product Officer, Okta Platform)

    06/04/2025

    Identity in the Age of AI - Arnab Bose (Chief Product Officer, Okta Platform)

    A huge challenge coming to the exponential growth of AI agents is security and auth. Enterprises will have challenges adopting agents in critical workflows without these. There’s a race to solve this problem and today we’ll hear from one of the largest identity security companies leading the charge. Arnab Bose is the Chief Product Officer of Okta Platform and previously was VP Product at Salesforce and Quip. In this episode we dive into the following areas: * Okta’s Role in Identity & Security Across Entire Enterprises * AI’s Impact on Internal Workflows * How Okta’s SSO Works Behind the Scenes * What will Identity Mean in the Age of Agents * How to Secure Agent to Agent Interactions & Model Context Protocol * Future of Shadow IT with Increased AI App Usage * Where Auth & Security for Agents is Going in the Future Where to Find Arnab: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abosesf/ * Twitter: https://x.com/ArBose Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    48 min

  3. 05/14/2025

    Building AI Products at Amazon & Amazon Q - Anoop Deoras (Director, AWS Agentic AI)

    Large tech companies have been rapidly embracing AI. Amazon in particular has been innovating rapidly with many recent announcements (Nova, Tranium 3, Bedrock Agents, & more), this episode dives into Amazon Q and Agentic AI at Amazon / AWS. Anoop Deoras is the Director of AWS Agentic AI and previously was a Principal Technologist at Netflix. In this episode we dive into the following areas: * The progression of AI over ~20 years * Building recommendation engines before Transformers * How AWS approached building Amazon Q * State of Coding Agents Today and Biggest Challenges around CodeGen * How AI Can Handle Large Scale Codebase Migrations * What Agents Change Compared to Current Codegen * Memory and Future Agentic Applications Where to Find Anoop: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoopdeoras/ * Twitter: https://x.com/adeoras Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    45 min

  4. 03/18/2025

    Building AI Driven Workflows - Eoin Hinchy (CEO, Tines)

    For those who are interested in how AI is impacting workflows of teams across industries, this is the episode for you. Eoin Hinchy is the CEO & Founder of Tines, a workflow builder for security-minded teams. He was previously the Sr Director of Security for Docusign and practiced security engineering at many others startups and corporations previously. In this episode we dive into the following areas: * The Founding Story Behind Tines * The Evolution of SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, & Remediation) over the past 10 years * How Tines Moved From Building for Security Teams to a Horizontal Worfklow Builder * How Tines Using AI to Enrich the Customer Experience * Customer Use Cases for AI * How Agents Will Impact Workflows in the Futuer * Why Attackers Don’t Need to Use AI Where to Find Eoin: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoinhinchy/ * Twitter: https://x.com/eoinhinchy * Website: https://www.tines.com/ Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    44 min
  5. Enterprise News - March 11 w/ Ron Miller (Editorial Director, Boldstart)

    03/11/2025

    Enterprise News - March 11 w/ Ron Miller (Editorial Director, Boldstart)

    For anyone who’s interested in a recurring podcast that covers the Enterprise news from the past few weeks, this is the episode for you. In this episode, Ron Miller (Editorial Director, Boldstart) & Shomik Ghosh (Partner, Boldstart) dive into key Enterprise Software news from the 2 weeks prior. This is the first such episode and we’d love to hear your thoughts! Please let us know if you’d like to hear this more by reaching out, commenting, tweeting, etc! * Nvidia Earnings * OpenAI GPT 4.5 release * Microsoft leasing vs building datacenters (along with a cancelled datacenter build) * Grok 3 release on largest GPU cluster * Claude 3.7 release with reasoning * Claude Code * Confluent Earnings * Stripe Annual Report on AI company revenue growth * Microsoft Deprecating Skype and Amazon Shutting Down Chime * Quantum Chips released by Google and Amazon This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    52 min

  6. 02/05/2025

    Data Streaming for AI - Andrew Sellers (Head of Technology Strategy, Confluent)

    This episode is for whomever is interested in data workloads for AI particularly event streaming and how those will be used in AI model training and inference. Andrew Sellers is the Head of Technology Strategy at Confluent. He was previously CTO at QOMPLX and CTO of the US Air Force Academy. In this episode, we dive into technology in the government and what changes for event streaming in the context of AI models. We cover technical aspects of data streaming, customer use cases for AI & event streams, and differences between inference workloads and training workloads for data streams. Where to Find Andrew Sellers: * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjsel/ Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. Covers: (01:52) - Background as CTO of US Air Force Academy (04:26) - How the Public Sector Optimizes Tech Decisions & Procurement (7:34) - Enterprise Data Strategies for AI (9:30) - Why Decoupling is More Important than Latency for Data Streaming Needs (12:30) - In-Stream Processing (17:10) - Bi-Directional Streaming (18:50) - AI Agents Impact on Streaming (21:10) - Inference Workflow Impact on Streaming (27:04) - Customer Use Cases (36:25) - Agent Use for Internal Product Workloads (38:12) - Real Time Data Attach Rates to Inference This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    43 min

  7. 12/19/2024

    AI Security in Coding Workflows - Ty Sbano (CISO, Vercel) & Emilio Escobar (CISO, Datadog)

    This episode is for whomever is curious about diving deep into AI Security and how CISOs think about it within internal and external workflows. Ty Sbano is the CISO of Vercel, the leading web experience hosting and deployment platform. He was previously CISO at Sisense and previously Sr Director of Security at Lending Club, Target, and Capital One. I’m also joined by Emilio Escobar, CISO of Datadog as a co-host. In this episode, we dive into how AI changes security practices, how to manage AI security around external products and internal workflows, and whether AI leverages existing primitives or involves new paradigms. For any security practitioners and founders, this is the episode for you! Where to Find Ty Sbano: * Twitter: https://x.com/TySbano * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysbano/ Where to Find Emilio: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/eaescob * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilioesc/ * Emilio’s Newsletter: Developer First Security Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    47 min

  8. 12/05/2024

    Driving Growth in Design & AI - Caroline Mack (COO, Spline AI)

    This episode is a fit for anyone who’s interested in how to drive best of breed growth at companies like Spline AI, Canva, and many others. Caroline Mack is COO of Spline. Caroline previously was a Growth lead at Canva and worked in product & growth at companies like Tencent, DocuSign, Google, and TripAdvisor. In this episode, we cover tactical learnings about growth in the application layer and how AI is changing 3D design and driving value to users. We also cover product, growth, and pricing advice for all startups. Where to Find Caroline: * Twitter: https://x.com/Caroline_Huskey * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinehuskey/ Where to Find Shomik: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21 * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/ * Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. In this episode, we cover: (00:40) – Working at Startups Around the Globe (04:46) – Spline Overview (05:44) – Key Learnings from Canva (07:56) – How Canva Coupled Growth & Product Teams (09:02) – How Canva Utilizes Eng Support in All Functions (10:00) – Identifying Free Users With High Propensity to Convert to Paid (11:30) – Product Touch Points of Onboarding Customized to User Profiles (12:16) – Learnings Caroline Applies from Canva to Spline (14:10) – Affiliate Programs vs Allowing User Generated Content to Spread Freely (15:24) – Why Workflow Matters in AI (16:45) – Use Cases for 3D Design (19:15) – Spatial Environment Design Trends (21:28) – Positioning a Product to Benefit from AI Model Improvements (23:15) – Growth at Spline & Community Engagement (25:22) – Are AI Native Apps More Likely to Experience Spikey Usage (27:10) – How to Develop User Communities (28:48) – What Can Be Measured in Growth (30:30) – Growth vs Monetization Tradeoffs (32:45) – Pricing for AI Products (35:03) – A/B Testing Pricing Effectively (36:30) - 3D Design Future This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

    38 min
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A podcast series exploring all things on the frontier of what's possible in technolgy. We'll interview experts from all areas including startups, investors, industry execs and deep dive into specific tech trends. shomik.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Shomik Ghosh
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Shomik Ghosh
  • Show Website
    On The Frontier