Kish Khemani runs AI architecture for B2B payments at REPAY, and he's been leading engineering teams since his first job in 1993, building a C++ compiler at a Silicon Valley startup.
His current team is roughly 20 people across the US, South America, and India, and he's kept it as 1 team on purpose. He explains why the pizza rule failed him at a previous company, why 3 teams of 6 turned into 2 teams of 9, and why it takes about 3 months to know if a structure is working.
The bigger part of the conversation is about what AI is doing to the way his team learns. Every check-in requires at least 2 peer reviews. The reviews still happen. But something in them has quietly changed.
Also covered: daytime and nighttime crews, why offshore contractors won't tell you the deadline is wrong until the week before, and how you run AI agents inside a payments platform when a single logic error costs millions.
About Our Guest:
Kish Khemani is VP of AI Architecture for B2B Payments at REPAY. He's led distributed engineering teams for 30+ years, starting in 1993 on a C++ compiler, and now runs AI architecture inside a payments platform. Connect with Kish on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishkhemani/
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