Join host Warner Moore on Project Gamma as he chats with tech veteran Jason Montgomery about how GenAI is revolutionizing engineering and cybersecurity. Discover how GenAI accelerates development, builds applications from scratch, and creates AI agents to tackle technical debt. We also explore strategies for introducing GenAI into your engineering team, modern security practices, and the essentials of DevSecOps.

Podcast topics:

• Using GenAI to accelerate engineering

• Building an application from scratch using GenAI

• Creating AI agents to tackle technical debt

• Introducing GenAI to your engineering organization

• Security in modern companies

• DevSecOps - security in building software

Jason shares his top book picks—Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mullick, The Coming Wave with Mustafa Suleyman, and AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan—plus insights on Applied LLMs and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM.

Tune in for a concise, impactful conversation at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and entrepreneurship!

About Jason Montgomery

Jason Montgomery began his journey in tech as a young coder and hobbyist hacker before starting his professional career as a software dev and sysadmin during the internet's early days. That experience eventually led him to transition into a full-time cybersecurity role focusing on Security Engineering and AppSec in the corporate world. He moved to the startup world as a security researcher at Veracode. In 2015, he co-founded Nexosis, an AI/ML company, which was later successfully acquired. Building on this experience, he went on to co-found Mantium, an early-stage generative AI company.

Now, he’s serving as an independent consultant and a technical trainer with ReynCon Security with a focus in cybersecurity and GenAI.

In this episode of Project Gamma, host Warner Moore sits down with Jean Bredeche, a technology leader with deep experience in growing FinTech startups and scaling teams. Together, they explore the journey from founding a business to building, growing, maintaining, and even selling it.

Jean shares his insights on key topics like effective delegation, fostering a DevOps culture, and aligning team efforts with clear business goals. He also discusses practical strategies for scaling technology teams and staying focused on long-term objectives while navigating the challenges of startup life.

Whether you're building your first startup or scaling your FinTech business to the next level, this episode is full of actionable advice and inspiration to help you succeed.

Jean recommended the book World for Sale by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy.

Bio: Jean Bredeche is a technology leader with a background in scaling startups and developing innovative products. He has held key roles at HubSpot, Quantopian (cofounder and CTO), Robinhood (acquired Quantopian), and Patch. He is now the CTO of a startup focusing on the intersection of AI and investment management tools.

Solving FinTech Business Problems with GenAI

In this episode, we talk with Grant Schneider, the Vice President of Machine Learning at Upstart Network, and Founder of Banco, Inc.

Grant shares how generative AI (GenAI) is changing the way businesses solve their biggest challenges. With over 10 years of experience in machine learning and statistics, he explains how companies can adopt GenAI and stay flexible by swapping out AI models as soon as better ones are available. This approach helps businesses save costs, improve security, and keep up with rapid advancements in AI.

Grant also discusses the importance of avoiding reliance on a single AI provider. He suggests designing systems that can easily integrate new models when they outperform existing ones. He shares insights on the hands-on experience needed to understand how different models, like Claude and GPT, handle tasks and data formats.

We explore how GenAI is transforming fintech, making decision-making smarter and operations more efficient. Grant shares his thoughts on Bitcoin and how it's reshaping the financial landscape.

During our conversation, we also mention some great books: