Small Talk with Ulises Olave, CTO and Co-Founder of Fitia

Ulises Olave, CTO and co-founder of Peru-based Fitia, describes how the AI-powered meal-planning and calorie-tracking app has grown to more than 10 million users while processing over 30 million food logs each month alongside health data such as weight, sleep, steps, and water intake. As its data became distributed across PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Azure, and Redis, Fitia adopted JetBrains DataGrip to centralize database work and use AI-assisted query suggestions, which the team says reduced some tasks from hours to seconds. The company also introduced GoLand for its Go microservices, reporting that its small engineering team roughly doubled development speed and now delivers a major feature about once a month, three times faster than previously. Looking ahead, Fitia plans to build personalized nutrition features using large-model providers’ capabilities combined with its own community data as it expands in the United States. The accompanying JetBrains Startup Program information states that privately owned companies established within the past five years can apply, with reviews generally completed within 48 hours and eligible participants receiving access to selected IDE, team, and learning tools.

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