No canned takes. I run Yuvan — a voice-first AI tutor live with paying schools — so every answer comes with real numbers: latency budgets, eval scores, cost curves, and the failures that taught them. Good mic, quiet room, flexible with US/EU time zones, and I promote every episode to my network.
Episode Topics That Land
Technical depth or founder story — your audience picks the altitude
Agents that survive production
What actually breaks in agent systems — and the evals, guardrails, and state design that prevent it.
Voice AI latency war stories
Getting a talking agent under 1.5s p95: WebRTC, barge-in, caching, and the cost math.
MCP & A2A: the agent ecosystem
Model Context Protocol, agent-to-agent patterns, and where the tooling ecosystem is heading.
Bootstrapping an AI product
Yuvan's journey: from prototype to paying CBSE schools, solo, on a founder's budget.
Hype vs. what ships
A practitioner's honest cut through agentic AI claims — what's real today, what isn't yet.
15 years to AI engineer
Amazon, Agoda, crypto scale-ups — and how a backend veteran retooled for the AI era.
Ways to Work Together
Podcast / YouTube Guest
Interviews, panels, and live streams.
- Technical or founder-story angles
- US/EU time-zone flexible
- Episode promoted to my network
Content Collaboration
Co-created technical content.
- Co-authored tutorials and courses
- YouTube collabs and series
- Conference co-presentations
Partnerships
Longer-term working relationships.
- Dev-rel with AI tool companies
- Community and hackathon partners
- Product collaborations
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I invite an AI expert onto my podcast?
Email arjun@arjunthakur.dev with your show, audience, format, and dates. Quick yes/no, time-zone flexible, good mic and quiet room guaranteed.
What topics make a good episode?
Production agent war stories, voice AI latency battles, LangGraph/MCP in practice, evals, bootstrapping to paying customers, and hype-vs-ships honesty.
What collaborations are you open to?
Co-created content and courses, YouTube collabs, dev-rel with AI tool companies, community and hackathon partnerships, and product collaborations.
Do you do sponsored content?
Selectively — only tools I'd use in production, always disclosed.
Related Pages
Agentic AI Speaker →
Conference keynotes and technical talks.
Speaking (Full Page) →
All speaking formats and past venues.
Blog →
Writing samples — the same stories, in article form.
Resume →
Full background for show notes and intros.