Founder Chats - Daulet Amirkhanov

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Today, we are dropping another episode in our "chats" series, specifically on the founder side - hearing from those scaling the companies themselves. In this episode, we are talking with Daulet Amirkhanov , Founding Engineer of Bead AI . Daulet is going to take us through his years at Meta and Cognee, leading into how he is building Bead AI, to take on compliance audits and AI automation. Questions Tell me and my audience a little bit about you. You've gone from three years on high-throughput reliability infrastructure at Meta, to engineering the GraphRAG engine and semantic memory systems at Cognee, and you're now Founding Engineer at Bead AI — an a16z-backed startup building autonomous agent infrastructure for compliance audits. How did that journey shape the way you think about engineering for the age of autonomous systems? Let's zoom into the Meta years. For listeners who haven't worked at that scale — what was the exact piece of logging and reliability infrastructure you owned, what does "high-throughput" actually mean in numbers there, and what's one specific architectural decision from those years that still shapes how you build today?