Braintrust by Cortex
Episodes
Rob Zuber on quality, metrics, and what it means to move in the right direction at CircleCI
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The platform engineering playbook for velocity, quality, and AI readiness at SIXT
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How Thrive Market's SVP of Engineering thinks about reliability culture
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 le...
Unwinding the trillion dollar mistake of over-engineered microservices
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Evans, former SVP of Engineering at Chegg, joins Ganesh Datta to explore why the microservices revolution created a new class of hidden costs th...
How to shift engineering culture by focusing on incentives, not mandates
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Schnitter, Solution Architect at Cortex and former developer experience leader at Workday, joins Ganesh Datta to explore why changing engineering...
Why production readiness at Xero starts with the customer, not the checklist
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Mare, a principal engineer at Xero, joins Ganesh Datta to explore why production readiness should be framed around the customer experience rather...
Why the "artisanal" approach to coding is holding engineering teams back
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta discusses the evolution of platform engineering with Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO and co-founder of Hum...
How Google Cloud's DORA is helping teams balance AI acceleration with engineering fundamentals
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Canva's strategic approach to internal developer tools and why they should spark joy
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Navigating the path from startup speed to enterprise scale
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 devel...
Introducing Braintrust
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 sh...