Navigating Tech and Chaos with Tyler Wells
Published: May 8, 2026
Duration: 50:24
My guest today is Tyler Wells, co-founder of Brain Grid.
Tyler recounts 25+ years in software, from an early IBM XT to work across military communications, startups, Skype/Microsoft, and seven and a half years at Twilio building video and SRE organizations, before founding Propel Data (which didn’t find product-market fit) and then Brain Grid.
He describes an experiment-driven approach to building high-performance systems by defining hypotheses, creating a “steel thread” MVP, and prioritizing observability for 2:00 AM incidents.
He discusses how AI coding shifts focus from typing code to architecture, document...