Agent Management in Practice: Building with t3

Pooria Arab is an AI product builder and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building companies, raising capital, investing, and developing new ventures. After moving into AI in 2022, he began focusing on helping others turn ideas into products and grow them using AI.

His work spans AI-powered product development, startup growth, and hands-on experimentation with emerging tools and agentic workflows. He combines product building with a strong growth mindset, exploring practical ways AI can help builders move faster from idea to execution.

Aki Wijesundara is an AI leader with a PhD in Machine Learning and extensive experience mentoring startups at Google’s AI Accelerator. With a career spanning both research and applied AI, Aki has taught 5,000+ students worldwide how to design and deploy production-ready AI systems.

He has worked across cutting-edge areas of applied AI, from LangChain and RAG pipelines to observability and large-scale deployment. As a researcher and educator, Aki bridges the gap between theory and practice, making complex systems approachable and actionable for engineers, founders, and product leaders.

Aki is also a frequent speaker and advisor to organizations adopting AI, helping them transition from experimentation to production at scale.