Holistico’s Co-founder and CTO, Dmitry Grudzinskiy, recently sat down with Gleb Braverman and HackerPulse for an in-depth interview on the Engineering Leadership Newsletter.

Dmitry shares rare insights from his decade-long journey at Natera, where he scaled the engineering team from 10 to 500 people during its transition into a $15 billion public biotech powerhouse. Now, he is applying those rigorous enterprise standards to Holistico, building agentic AI specifically for the financial advisory industry.

Expert insights from the interview:

• Scaling through structured autonomy: Dmitry discusses how to design a “network of teams” rather than a traditional pyramid to maintain speed and accountability at scale.
• Staying fast inside a regulated industry: The interview covers strategies for balancing strict regulatory compliance with startup velocity — a mission-critical requirement for both biotech and fintech.
• Embracing AI as a practical teammate: Dmitry explains why agentic AI isn’t a replacement for talent, but a multiplier that can take on about 80% of repetitive documentation and analysis tasks.
• Connecting engineering to sales: The discussion explores why every modern engineer must understand sales and marketing to build products that solve real-world problems.

“At Holistico, we aren’t just building another tool; we’re applying the same rigorous scalability and security frameworks used in life-saving biotech to the world of wealth management.” — Dmitry Grudzinskiy.

Read the full interview on HackerPulse: From DNA to data: Building scalable systems in biotech and fintech.