S11 E9: Buchi Reddy, Levo.ai

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Buchi Reddy lives in North Austin, having recently moved there with his family. He is originally from south India, and grew up in a farming family before moving to the metro and studying engineering. Post college, he spent many years building high frequency trading systems, before moving to Silicon Valley and joining companies there, just as Cisco and Traceable, which you as the audience are very familiar with. Outside of tech, he is married with a 7 year old son. He and his family enjoy hiking, overnight camping, and living just far enough away from the craziness of downtown Austin to still enjoy it.

While he was interviewing customers at a prior company, Buchi spotted a wide gap for enterprises, where API's were not tested properly before going to production. Baffled by this, he wanted to go bridge the gap, and build something to automate this testing.

This is the creation story of Levo.

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0:00.0	Guys, I've got something cool to tell you about.
0:02.5	As an engineering leader, a manager, and an engineer myself, I'm geeking out over a new product I'm just discovering that helps me with each of these points of view.
0:11.0	The great team at SEMA, builders of the SEMA intelligence platform, have been working on what they call the product roadmap radar.
0:19.0	It's this integrated solution that uses generative AI to observe
0:22.2	your code and Jira in order to summarize, synthesize, and make it easier to deliver your roadmap.
0:28.2	It not only helps keep your roadmap on track, but it helps reduce the time engineers spend in
0:33.2	meetings. Cue all the engineers clapping. The product roadmap radar is extremely easy to set up.
0:40.3	This only takes about five minutes, just enable your integrations and let AI do all the mapping
0:44.8	for you.
0:45.9	My favorite part?
0:46.9	I'm glad you asked.
0:47.9	The radar doesn't just tell you about your roadmap.
0:50.5	It suggests changes you need to make, based on the code that's been written and the stories that have been addressed.
0:56.0	No commenting, no special setup, all generative AI.
1:00.0	It gives you an outside view of your roadmap based on the code and projects a target completion date based on outstanding work and activity.
1:08.0	Again, no comments, no special setup.
1:10.0	It even detects shadow work when
1:12.3	development is being done but Jura isn't being updated. I'm pretty jazzed about it, and I think
1:17.1	you will be too. Take a second to watch a short but awesome demo video. Go to codestory.com
1:23.6	slash PRR to watch it today. You'll like what you see.
1:29.6	This episode is sponsored by Postman. Postman is the world's leading API platform,
1:35.3	trusted by 98% of the Fortune 500 and over 40 million developers. Tap into APIs from 18,000-plus
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