From Backend Engineer to Building AI Infrastructure at a Startup

What does it look like to go from a six-person startup team to running the infrastructure behind 1,000+ AI models? Matteo and I have known each other for over 10 years, but I realized I'd never actually asked him about his engineering journey in depth. I knew he was doing infrastructure work, but I didn't know the full story of how he got there. This conversation filled in a lot of gaps for me. In Episode 4 of Making Software, I talked to Matteo Ferrando , Platform and Infra Engineer at fal.ai ,