E563 Building Enterprise AI Agents at Scale with Crafting's Sumeet Vaidya

E563 Building Enterprise AI Agents at Scale with Crafting's Sumeet Vaidya

Author: Alldus International July 13, 2026 Duration: 24:35

Today's guest is Sumeet Vaidya, Co-Founder and CEO at Crafting. Founded in 2021, Crafting is an AI infrastructure platform that enables engineering teams to deploy autonomous coding agents in secure, production-like environments. Designed for enterprise organizations, the platform allows AI agents to write, test, validate and ship software using real infrastructure, data and dependencies. Crafting helps businesses accelerate software delivery while maintaining enterprise-grade security, reliability and operational control.

Sumeet is an experienced engineering leader and entrepreneur focused on solving complex challenges that improve productivity. He has built and scaled high-performing teams across developer tools, consumer products, marketplaces and enterprise integrations. As an angel investor and advisor, he helps founders achieve product-market fit, strengthen their technology and business strategies, and build scalable companies. Sumeet is passionate about enabling teams to solve meaningful problems and create lasting impact.

In the episode, Sumeet talks about:

0:00 His journey from big tech roles to startup founder

2:27 Crafting’s shift from improving developer tooling to now enabling AI agents

4:43 Betting on AI agents despite industry skepticism

7:36 Building an enterprise-first AI agent infrastructure for scaling globally

11:57 Why Agents need real testing capabilities to succeed

15:43 Why engineering leaders are caught between AI hype and practical execution pressure

19:46 The need for engineers to focus on outcomes and founders to understand motivationTo find out more about all the great work happening at Crafting, check out the website www.crafting.dev


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