Building AI-native Payroll, Compliance and Benefits I Enginears Podcast

About this episode

The episode features Ayush Sharma discussing Warp's AI-native approach to employee management and the challenges faced in the payroll ecosystem.

This week I’m delighted to introduce Ayush Sharma, Founder and CEO of Warp. Warp are building the next-gen, AI-native employee management platform for fast-growing companies. We are diving into Warp’s journey, why they are tackling the employee management space and more importantly the how behind their journey – it wouldn’t be an Enginears podcast if we aren’t breaking down the product and engineering challenges behind this. - 2 years in, closed $18M Series A, alongside YC, Dropbox C-level, Amjad (Replit) - crew of highly technical + product folks. - Understanding the friction points of the payroll ecosystem and how Warp are re-building this with a highly-technical, AI-native approach. - Scale, performance and fault-tolerancy challenges. - Ayush's product-first mindset and how he believes companies of 2025+ will build category defining companies. - Meta points around AI/LLM's If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushsharma01/ Careers: https://www.joinwarp.com/careers/roles Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter…

People in this episode

Host: Enginears

Guest: Ayush Sharma

Topics covered

• AI-native payroll
• employee management
• product engineering challenges
• startup journey
• scalability
• performance
• fault-tolerance

Keywords

• AI
• employee management
• payroll
• startup
• engineering challenges
• scalability
• performance
• fault-tolerance
• Series A
• product-first mindset

Sponsors

Artifeks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Warp, YC, Dropbox, Replit

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