Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders S11 E24: Mrinal Wadhwa, Autonomy S11
Nov 4, 2025
Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO and co-founder of Autonomy and creator of the Ockam Rust toolkit, shares insights from his tech journey. He reveals how customer feedback inspired the creation of Autonomy, a platform for scalable AI products. Mrinal discusses the architectural benefits of using an actor model for efficient agent management and lessons learned from early mistakes with LLMs. He emphasizes the importance of perseverance for aspiring entrepreneurs and reflects on personal influences that shape his innovative mindset.
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Platform For Production Autonomous Apps
- Autonomy is a platform to build and ship production-grade autonomous AI products for customers, not just personal scripts.
- It provides multi-tenant hosting, APIs, streaming, and managed databases so developers can deliver reliable, scalable services.
Actor Model Enables Massive Parallel Agents
- Autonomy models each agent as an actor using an actor runtime written in Rust with a Python wrapper for developer-facing APIs.
- This design lets thousands of stateful agents run cheaply in a single container and scale massively across containers.
Demo Turned Into A Bank Loan Use Case
- The team built a minimum demo in two to two-and-a-half months and used it to spark customer ideas.
- A bank became an early customer, adapting the demo into a loan-document processing agent and iterating rapidly with Autonomy.
