Danni Friedland

CTO @ Kuro Technology

Technical founder & CTO with 20+ years building and scaling engineering teams and systems. Led AI infra at Kuro (RAG pipelines, Elixir, vector search), co-founded Walnut (B2B SaaS, scaled to 40 remote devs), and Jaco (acquired by WalkMe). Ex-Principal Engineer at WeWork, VP Eng at WalkMe, and tech lead at eBay. Deep focus on developer experience, backend architecture, and startup execution from 0→1.

Talk:
The AI Startup CTO's Guide to Building With Elixir

As a lean AI startup with limited devs, we chose Elixir not for the hype, but for its mechanical simplicity. This is a CTO’s view into where Elixir fit in a fairly standard Data/AI/RAG startup - what’s good, what is bad and what is just missing.

I’ll speak about ETL workloads, hiring structure and learnings and how Elixir can fit within what is traditionally a python oriented space

Key Takeaways:

  • What to think of if you want to build a startup using Elixir
  • What we as the community should fix if we want Elixir to shine for Data workloads

Target Audience:

  • People exploring Elixir/OTP as the foundation for their stack
  • Tech leaders
  • Startups