Breakpoint: War stories of Agents Breaking in Prod

​Breakpoint is a curated gathering for engineers building and scaling AI agents in production.

​A no fluff engineers' discussion on what actually happens when agents break, how teams recover, and what it really takes to build reliable systems that can scale to millions of runs.

Expect to meet engineering leaders from top AI start-ups, platform teams from major tech companies, and hands-on builders who are shaping how agents operate in the real world.

​Venue: Dex by ThirdLayer(YCW25) Office, 74 Brady St

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Agenda
5:30 PM – Welcome & Networking (with Pizza!)
Grab a slice, meet fellow engineers, and get ready for an evening of stories and insights.

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Story Sessions
Stories from engineers that have deployed, debugged, and scaled AI agents. Learn what breaks, what works, and what to avoid when reliability matters.

7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing Notes & Open Discussions
Wrap up with takeaways, new ideas, and new connections.

​Featured Speakers:

• ​Kevin Gu: CTO, ThirdLayer (YC W25)
  Kevin is the CTO of ThirdLayer and is building the context engine for browser work. Kevin founded ThirdLayer while at Harvard and previously worked across quant/ML research/engineering roles at Jump Trading, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, QuantCo, and Meta.
  

• ​Abhinav Tumu : Founding Team, Brainbase (YC)
  Abhinav is a Founding Engineer at Brainbase Labs, an applied research lab out of the YC W24 batch. Brainbase builds high fidelity tooling and environments for conversational and generalist agents. Abhinav has been at Brainbase Labs for just over a year, with previous experiences at other AI startups like Bland, and big tech companies like Snowflake and Roblox.
  

• ​Nikhil Mishra: CTO, Flexprice
  Nikhil is the CTO and co-founder of Flexprice, an open-source billing and metering platform built for AI and agentic companies.
  Before founding Flexprice, he led engineering teams at some of the world’s leading tech companies, including Zomato.
  When he’s not building infrastructure, you’ll find Nikhil on a hiking trail or connecting with new people over coffee.
  

• ​Robin Guldener: Founder and CEO, Nango
  Robin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nango, a developer platform that lets you connect your AI product with 500+ APIs. Before starting Nango, he built a B2B SaaS to 1k customers and 30+ integrations.
  

• ​Nivedit Jain: Founder Exosphere
  Nivedit Jain is the CTO at Exosphere, with deep interest in designing and building scalable software architecture and complex math problems. He previously led routing algorithms at Azure OpenAI and now focuses on scaling AI workloads and agent orchestration systems. A two time founder having started from his college dorm, he is now building his own cloud for large data inference.

​Apply here to express interest to speak

If you’re building, maintaining, or scaling AI agents, Breakpoint is where you’ll find peers who’ve been through the same fire. The focus is on shared learning, not slides.

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