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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S11 Bonus: Alan Fisher, KinetiX at Wabtec Corporation

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Entrepreneurship, Technology, Careers, News, Tech News, Business

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Alan Fisher started his career as a computer programmer. Early on, he was hired by the 1st or 2nd largest freight railroad in the world, Union Pacific. He describes their technology group as having a punk rock spirit, leaning towards building their own solutions over buying them, which he found great value in. Outside of tech, he has been married for 30 years, and has 3 kids. He is an avid runner, landing someplace between a marathon runner and a mile in the morning kinda guy. He also loves to read the classics, drawing inspiration from them, along with restoring old homes.

Given his rich history in the rail industry, Alan has led the charge in growth, innovation, and most recently, logistics, analytics, and digital mine. As his company started to look to the future in how to solve the industry's most pressing problems, his team executed the acquisition of a portfolio of companies and products - driving by automated inspection.

This is a creation story of KinetiX at Wabtec Corporation.

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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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0:19.6

Okay, guys, I got a serious update for you.

0:22.2

You heard me talk about SEMA and the Product Roadmap Radar.

0:25.8

I just caught up with Matt, who's the founder there, and he gave me the latest on what they

0:29.6

are building, and my mind is blown.

0:32.9

The team at SEMA are taking things to the next level.

0:36.3

Built around the core of the product roadmap

0:38.0

radar, i.e. Code and Jira analysis, they are building agent orchestration across the product

0:44.0

lifecycle. Picture this. You hook up this system, same as before, i.e. integrate your repository

0:49.3

and your backlog, Jira today. From that point, S Seamus agent analyzes the code base and makes suggestions

0:55.2

as to what needs to be done next and what could improve, optimize the product. Then, if those

1:01.1

tasks are routine, the agent assigns the tasks to a coding agent, think something like Devin,

1:06.7

to complete the minutia while assigning the human-in-the-loop tasks to engineers themselves.

1:12.3

What you end up with is engineers focusing on building core competency features while AI

1:17.3

handles all the rest. If you're not salivating right now, I don't think you fully understand what

1:22.0

this means. But here's what I would suggest. Right now, their product is in a closed beta,

1:26.4

and SEMA is looking for

1:27.8

folks to sign up for their product intelligence advisory board. This gives you the opportunity

1:32.5

to use the product, give feedback, help shape the future of what's built, oh, and not to mention

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