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Lucas Silva

Chief Technology Officer, Mesmer

Lucas co-founded Mesmer and leads the engineering work behind the agent map and adoption instrumentation. He spent the last decade scaling backend platforms at high-growth startups and has reviewed enough rollouts to be allergic to the word "transformation."

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  • Playbook

    Life after DORA: eng metrics for agentic teams

    DORA still works as a health check but it is a lagging indicator you cannot optimize toward. SPACE is worse off — its volume components are game-able and it pins system problems on individuals. What replaces them: org-level measurement, volume used as a cross-reference rather than a target, quality graded on every merge, review coverage weighted by effort, and two per-person metrics.

    Lucas Silva