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 sit with leadership in the morning and implement with the teams in the afternoon. I’m usually the only person in the room who has experience in both.

Arndt Voges sitting on the floor against a sofa in a bright room, smiling

Current work

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.

The program is public for you to share with your teams.

Agentic engineering: the curriculum and all eight session decks.

Before

  1. 2025 to 2026Co-founder and CTO, Purple AI
  2. 2021 to 2025Co-founder and CTO, Learn.xyz
  3. Before 2021A decade as Engineering and Product leader

I grew up in Germany and have lived in the United States for fifteen years. I live in San Francisco with my wife and our son, and when I’m not working I’m usually under an old car, fixing something, or near or in the water.

Get in touch

Email is best: hello@arndtvoges.com. If you would rather talk, book a 30-minute call. I am also on LinkedIn.