Small Talk With Prasun Kumar, CEO and Founder of Oppex AI

Prasun Kumar, CEO and founder of Oppex AI, describes the company’s AI agents for helping developers diagnose and resolve production incidents by assembling logs, cloud metrics, database health, affected-customer information, recent code changes, and prior fixes before an on-call engineer is alerted. Founded by Kumar, a longtime startup engineer and JetBrains user, the 15-person company has launched its product and begun working with enterprise customers, aiming to reduce mean time to resolve incidents to under 10 minutes. Oppex AI addresses the challenge of interpreting complex logs across large microservice environments by building system knowledge graphs and testing agents against a “chaos monkey” that deliberately breaks test systems. The team primarily uses IntelliJ IDEA alongside other JetBrains tools, with Kumar emphasizing IDEs’ value for understanding AI-generated code. Its long-term goal is to move from human-guided recommendations to human-approved fixes and eventually self-healing production systems.

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