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title: "Building Developer Infrastructure at Scale : Office Hours with Jim Everingham"
description: "Join Jim Everingham, CEO of Guild.ai \u0026 former Meta DevInfra leader, to learn how the best companies build developer infrastructure \u0026 deploy AI agents that engineering teams actually use."
categories: ["office hours"]
keywords: ["Jim Everingham","Guild.ai","developer infrastructure","AI agents","Meta engineering","developer productivity","engineering platforms","AI in development","developer tools","scaling infrastructure"]
ai_summary: "Learn how Jim Everingham built Meta's developer infrastructure \u0026 first internal AI agent, plus insights on what actually works in production AI systems."
date: 2026-02-03
lastmod: 2026-08-04
canonical_url: https://www.tomtunguz.com/office-hours-jim-everingham-developer-infrastructure/
author: "Tomasz Tunguz"
---


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Meta's first internal AI agent went from zero to thousands of engineers using it daily. That doesn't happen by accident. On Tuesday, February 25th at 5:30 PM Pacific, the person who built it, Jim Everingham, will explain how.

Jim is the CEO & co-founder of Guild.ai. Previously, he led Meta's developer infrastructure organization & was responsible for building Meta's first internal AI agent, work that moved from experimentation to real adoption across engineering teams.

Before Meta, Jim built developer platforms at Instagram & Yahoo, giving him a unique perspective on what scales, & what creates long-term friction.

During this Office Hours, Jim & I will talk about :

- Building Meta's First Internal AI Agent : What it took to drive real adoption inside a large engineering organization, including integration into developer workflows, trust, & reliability challenges.
- AI Agents in the Real World : Where agents are delivering value today, where they break down in production, & which design patterns survive beyond demos.
- Scaling Developer Infrastructure : Lessons from building platforms at Meta, Instagram, & Yahoo, including early decisions that compound versus those that quietly create long-term friction.

This session is designed for founders & engineering leaders who are actively building & deploying AI systems today. The goal is a candid, grounded discussion focused on what actually works in production & what mistakes are hardest to unwind later.

If you're interested to attend, [please register here](https://gatsby.events/theory-ventures/rsvp/register?e=office-hours-building-developer-infrastructure-at-scale). As always, submit questions through the registration form & I'll weave them into the conversation.

I look forward to welcoming Jim to Office Hours!