From Career Pivots to AI Innovation: Lessons in Building Better Systems (E.13)

In this episode of Free Form AI, we sit down with Mary Moore-Simmons, VP of Engineering at Kibo (formerly GitHub), to explore how career pivots, leadership, and AI are reshaping engineering.

From drying Kona coffee beans with radiant heat to leading complex orgs at GitHub, Mary shares how curiosity, efficiency, and a bias for action can accelerate your career. We discuss the hidden cost of inefficiency in scaling teams, why “just doing the thing” often opens new doors, and how AI is transforming cost and performance optimization at scale.