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The Infra Pod

The Infra Pod
Software Development
Infrastructure
AI Native Development
Data Analytics
AI Agents
Bring Your Own Cloud
Snyk
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Distributed Systems
Devtools
AWS
CI/CD
Archill
Looker
Tessl
Kubernetes
Security Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Angel Investment

The Infra Pod brings you insightful and thought-provoking discussions on the world of infrastructure software. This podcast is started by two engineers, Ian Livingstone (tech advisor for Snyk) and Tim Chen (General Partner at Essence VC), team up with a rotating cast of guests to dive deep into the latest trends and hot topics in the software infrastructure space.

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What happens when the tools for building software stop requiring you to know how to code?

In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (GP at Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (CEO of Keycard) sit down with Tyler Wells, co-founder and CTO of Brain... more

What happens when you combine world-class mathematicians with cutting-edge AI systems?

In this episode, Ian Livingston (CEO of Keycard) and Timothy Chen (GP at Essence VC) sits down with Shubho, CTO of Axiom Math, to explore the emerging world of A... more

In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (Keycard) sit down with Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to explore the evolving world of AI inference infrastructure.

Benny shares his journey from Meta — wher... more

Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) interviewed Louis Vichy, co-founder of OpenRouter, about why he built OpenRouter to de-risk AI app development (end-user pays LLM costs), how it scaled to processing ~5–6T tokens/week, and what OpenRouter is today: ... more

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Recent Guests

Benny Chen
Co-founder of Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI
Episode: Betting on Open Source Models to be the future (Chat with Benny, Cofounder of Fireworks AI)
Louis Vichy
Co-founder of OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Episode: Building a successful infra product between all the AI apps and model providers (chat with Louis from OpenRouter)
Catherine Jue
Co-founder and CEO of Kernel
Kernel
Episode: From 30 Seconds to 20ms: Solving Browser Speed for AI Agents (Chat with Catherine from Kernel)
Tejas Bhakta
CEO and co-founder of Morph
Morph LLM
Episode: Coding agents need infra to apply code changes! (Chat with Tejas from Morph)
Dexter Horthy
CEO of Humanlayer
Humanlayer
Episode: Let's chat about vibe coding & Ralph! (Chat with Dexter at Humanlayer)
Akshay Shah
Field CTO at Antithesis
Antithesis
Episode: Building a bug-free vibe coding world (Chat with Akshay from Antithesis)
Sammy Sdu
CEO of Eventual, a multimodal data processing platform.
Eventual
Episode: From Spark to Eventual: Reinventing Data for the AI Era (Chat with Sammy from Eventual)
Anurag Goel
CEO of Render
Render
Episode: Render is defining what taste means in backend infra (Chat with Anurag from Render)
Alex Eagle
Co-founder and CEO of Aspect.Build
Aspect.Build
Episode: Bazel and the Next Wave of AI Developer Infrastructure (Chat with Alex Eagle from Aspect Build)

Hosts

Tim Chen
Co-host of the show; General Partner at Essence VC; frequent involvement in AI infra and developer tooling discussions.
Ian Livingstone
Co-host with a background in startups and advisory roles; frequent guest on infrastructure conversations.

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 23 ratings
  • So insightful

    I can’t believe how much I learned listening to these folks - really great stuff!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Tech wizard 503
    New Zealand3 years ago

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Guests bring strong technical depth and real-world insights.
Sponsorship alignment seems favorable for B2B tech brands seeking engineering audiences.
Content can be dense but highly actionable for builders and buyers.
Audience notes high practical value from engineering-focused episodes.
Shows a clear pattern of featuring founders and CTOs from AI infra and developer tooling.

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#193
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Apple Podcasts
#224
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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Building a model that can prove theorems (with Shubho from Axiom Math)
Q: Conceptually, how do you think about training a model for mathematical reasoning compared to traditional language models?
The training is not fundamentally different in concept; you still blend reasoning in natural language with reasoning in formal languages like Lean, and the model learns to navigate between these representations to build and verify proofs.
Bazel and the Next Wave of AI Developer Infrastructure (Chat with Alex Eagle from Aspect Build)
Q: What is Bazel designed to solve, and why was it built at Google?
Bazel addresses the need for a robust build and test system, designed specifically to optimize Google's codebase management and efficiency.
Bazel and the Next Wave of AI Developer Infrastructure (Chat with Alex Eagle from Aspect Build)
Q: What motivated you to start a company around Bazel?
Alex shares his journey and how his experience at Google sparked the vision to solve unmet needs in Bazel's adoption and support.
Render is defining what taste means in backend infra (Chat with Anurag from Render)
Q: How are you thinking about Render as a platform offering in relation to the rise of coding agents?
Anurag notes that development teams are moving faster thanks to coding agents, leading to a demand for higher-level tools that Render is focusing on providing.
Render is defining what taste means in backend infra (Chat with Anurag from Render)
Q: How do you think about developing those opinions and dealing with the lock-in question?
Render offers flexibility with applications allowing users to run Docker containers without imposing specifications, thus reducing lock-in.

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What is The Infra Pod about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A frequent deep-dive into infrastructure software, with conversations centered on AI-driven tooling, open-source AI models, multi-provider inference, browser automation for agents, and the evolving developer experience in cloud infrastructure. Episodes consistently blend practical engineering detail with business context, exploring topics like model routing, AI agents, coding agents, deterministic testing, and scalable data pipelines. Notable is a penchant for bringing early-stage and established players together to unpack how infrastructure choices shape software delivery, reliability, and AI readiness. Listeners likely gain a clear sense of current challenges and emerging patterns in AI-powered infrastructure, along with actionable insigh... more

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Recent guests on The Infra Pod include:

1. Benny Chen
2. Louis Vichy
3. Catherine Jue
4. Tejas Bhakta
5. Dexter Horthy
6. Akshay Shah
7. Sammy Sdu
8. Anurag Goel

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