S11 E24: Mrinal Wadhwa, Autonomy S11

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Mrinal Wadhwa grew up in India with a Dad in the Armed Forces, so he moved around a lot. His mother was a teacher for 40+ years, and greatly influenced his love for teaching. In addition to this, he grew up loving to build things. He was introduced to computers and the internet by his cousin - and at that point he was hooked. Outside of tech, he is married and enjoys attending concerts in the Bay Area. He plays pool, very seriously. In fact, he is the guy carrying the little bag into a party with his own pool stick. Mrinal is one of the minds behind Okham, a popular open source Rust toolkit to build secure communications between applications. Late last year, he observed people desiring to build the layer between agent communications... and decided to build something to do it the right way. This is the creation story of Autonomy. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:01.0	You heard me talk about C-M-A and the Product Roadmap Radar.
1:04.0	I just caught up with Matt, who's the founder there, and he gave me the latest on what they are building.
1:09.0	And my mind is blown. The team at SEMA are taking
1:13.1	things to the next level. Built around the core of the product roadmap radar, i.e. code
1:18.1	and Jira analysis, they are building agent orchestration across the product lifecycle.
1:23.5	Picture this. You hook up this system same as before, i.e. integrate your repository and your
1:28.3	backlog, Jira today. From that point, CMA's agent analyzes the code base and makes suggestions
1:33.7	as to what needs to be done next and what could improve, optimize the product. Then, if those tasks are
1:40.2	routine, the agent assigns the task to a coding agent, think something like Devin, to
1:45.4	complete the minutia while assigning the human-in-the-loop tasks to engineers themselves.
1:51.0	What you end up with is engineers focusing on building core competency features while AI handles
1:56.4	all the rest. If you're not salivating right now, I don't think you fully understand what this
2:00.8	means. But here's what I would suggest. right now, I don't think you fully understand what this means.
2:01.7	But here's what I would suggest. Right now, their product is in a closed beta, and SEMA is looking
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