# Arndt Voges > Fifteen years running engineering and product organizations, the last four building AI startups in Silicon Valley. When a company has bought the AI tools and not much has changed, I'm the outsider they bring in. I take on a few advisory roles a year, at established companies with large in-house technology organizations that want AI to reshape how they operate. The work starts with the engineering teams: weekly sessions on their own codebase until agents do real, reviewed work under rules the team has written down. Alongside that I advise leadership on structure, staffing and build decisions. ## Background - 2025 to 2026: Co-founder and CTO, Purple AI (https://www.bepurple.ai/) - 2021 to 2025: Co-founder and CTO, Learn.xyz (seed round announcement: https://www.prweb.com/releases/learnxyz-bags-3m-seed-funding-rolls-out-first-of-its-kind-ai-powered-social-learning-app-globally-301928882.html) - Before 2021: a decade as Engineering and Product leader ## Links - [Homepage](https://arndtvoges.com/): who I am, current work, background and how to reach me - [Agentic engineering program](https://coaching.arndtvoges.com/engineering/): the curriculum and all eight session decks, public - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arndtvoges) - [Email](mailto:hello@arndtvoges.com): hello@arndtvoges.com - [Book a 30-minute call](https://meet.arndtvoges.com/arndt)