Olmo Maldonado

Staff Engineer @ Braintrust. All posts are my own.

Formerly at Zapier (Sr. Engr), omcode (founder), Code RGV (founder), Google, UCLA (M.S. EE), UTSA (B.S. EE)

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

Go out and vote! Have a seat on the table.

Just like you choose your agents you should choose who acts on your behalf.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

Would love if github had tsx file viewer like storybook.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

In my 20+ years of software engineering. 40% is the language, but 60% is the tooling.

It's amazing how much more lazy I can be with AI. Cleanup wasteful files and processes used to be a context killer.

At some point, I'll have a watchdog that does this for me automatically.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

starting to feel like ironman & jarvis with gpt-5.5 high + my own skills.

it's been nice folks ✌️

inflection point 5/14/2026

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

@Caltrain there's no amount of money I wouldn't pay to have reliable high speed Internet on my commute. Ask your price. Done.

[Braintrust @braintrust]

Teams running AI applications in production generate thousands of traces a day, but can't read them all.

Braintrust is launching Topics to automatically group traces into meaningful patterns, so you can see what's actually happening.

Topics is accessible directly in the platform, so you're not relying on static reports. Build better datasets, generate inputs to your evals, and understand when new problems show up in production.

[Braintrust @braintrust]

Observability tells you what happened. Evals tell you whether it's getting better. Braintrust connects the two by automatically surfacing patterns and acting on them.

New from the Trace keynote:
- Topics finds insights and errors
- Loop enables human-powered remediation
- Braintrust Gateway standardizes access and observability across model providers
- Braintrust CLI brings the UI to the terminal

[Ankur Goyal @ankrgyl]

We sent this note to our customers to let them know that Braintrust has raised a new round of funding, and thank them for their support. While the money is exciting, our focus hasn't changed: we're building Braintrust to help our customers ship quality AI products.

In 2026, AI is moving to production but teams have never had less conviction about what will fail next. Our customers are building AI products that serve millions and simply need to work. If Braintrust makes their lives easier and their products better, I know we are doing our job.

Thank you to @ICONIQCapital for leading our Series B, and to @a16z, @GreylockVC, @basecasevc, and @eladgil for doubling down. Thank you to the Braintrust team for all the incredible work you've done over the past year. And thank you to our customers, who have made this growth possible.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

Lucky to be part of Braintrust before B, and after B the good is only going to get better. Happy to be part of the 🚀

[Braintrust @braintrust]

Braintrust has raised an $80M Series B.

We're building the infrastructure that helps teams measure, evaluate, and improve their AI products.

Don't take our word for it. Hear how @NotionHQ, @Vercel, @Navan, and @billcom use Braintrust to ship quality AI.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

@yagp you've left the music on the livestream during the awards livestream in San Francisco 2026.

[Ankur Goyal @ankrgyl]

new kanban view for working through review tasks

we're quite excited about how teams are treating annotation like real tasks that should be prioritized and solved. it's our job to make that easy and fun!

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

Code search in 2026 vs in the past.

Would love to see a score/eval of my generated search, though, to see if the AI missed an instantiation.

[Braintrust @braintrust]

We've eliminated user-based pricing.

Invite more engineers, PMs, and cross-functional partners and build quality AI together.

[morgane palomares @morgane_paloma]

Trace lineup dropped → https://t.co/eFkjC0ZOPT

Speakers from @tryramp, @Replit, @Dropbox, @Zendesk, @NotionHQ, @mintlify, @modal & more!

* Feb 25
* California Academy of Sciences [SF]
* Space is limited. In-person only.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

@github would love if the diff UI allowed me to toggle on/off the wrapping so I can read PR reviews on a small screen on the Caltrain

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

Excited to be part of @braintrust's first user conference.

No gimmicks just pure real world AI engineering goodness from the best products and companies fully invested in a better user experience with AI.

[Braintrust @braintrust]

Trace lineup is live.

Speakers from Ramp, Replit, Notion, Zendesk, Dropbox, HubSpot, FanDuel, Box, and more.

Bring your team. In person only. Space is limited.

Feb 25 in SF → https://t.co/IEI02QpLx5

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

We stop debating *how* something is done and start scrutinizing *what* it should do. We become designers of intent.

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

A mental model for the future of dev work 🧵

[Olmo Maldonado @ibolmo]

This isn't about writing less code. It's about focusing on the right code. The contracts. The boundaries. The intent.