Karl Clement

Building AI Coding Agents for the Enterprise

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Karl Clement is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Sourcegraph, where he builds AI coding agents for enterprise customers. He works directly with Sourcegraph’s largest customer to deploy modern coding agents powered by Amp, Sourcegraph’s new enterprise-grade agent platform. His focus is on bringing cutting-edge AI assistance into real-world developer workflows at scale. Previously, Karl co-founded Squire AI, where he architected an advanced code review system that leveraged LLMs and custom agents to automatically analyze pull requests on GitHub, detecting security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and potential system reliability risks. His technical achievements include designing distributed agent systems using LangGraph and serverless architecture, while building enterprise-grade infrastructure that met rigorous SOC2 compliance standards. He built the production infrastructure to host these agents using platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS. Karl’s unique blend of technical and business acumen is demonstrated through his previous success raising $4.4M from leading investors NfX and Emergence Capital for his Y Combinator-backed startup, Codex. He brings hands-on experience in scaling AI products for enterprise customers, managing technical operations, and building secure, production-ready AI systems. His background in both founding AI companies and implementing large-scale LLM-powered systems makes him particularly valuable for organizations looking to build or scale their AI initiatives. At Dignified, Karl worked directly with clients to help them build the best possible products and find product market fit. He has worked with early stage pre-seed startups all the way to Fortune 500 organizations. At CoVenture, Karl was Head of Engineering and worked closely with their portfolio to help them build the best software to support their business. He managed the engineering team to develop at break neck speeds and reach PMF as quickly as possible. Here are some of his specialties: - AI Agents and Autonomous AI - LLM Infrastructure - High Traffic Reliability - Security and Compliance (SOC2, ISO etc) - Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing - REST, GraphQL and Realtime APIs - Rapid building MVPs - Multi language stacks - Micro-service architectures - Scrum and Agile development and planning

Experience

  • Co-Founder and Forward Deployed Engineer at Amp Code
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

  • Forward Deployed Engineer at Sourcegraph
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Technical Co-Founder and COO at Squire AI
    Nov 2020 - Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Karl is mainly focused on the development of core algorithms, the software's user interfaces as well as the infrastructure. He helped deploy the AI agent infrastructure to build the fully autonomous AI review. He also manages the team marketing efforts to develop a stronger online presence. While developing web marketing material, he focuses heavily on SEO and social media strategies. He also manages the teams operations such as finances and accounting. This includes managing all expenses, bookkeeping and account management.

  • Technical Co-Founder (prev CODEOWNERS, Codex) at EchoLayer
    Nov 2020 - Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Karl is mainly focused on the development of core algorithms, the software's user interfaces as well as the infrastructure. He also manages the team marketing efforts to develop a stronger online presence. While developing web marketing material, he focuses heavily on SEO and social media strategies. He also manages the teams operations such as finances and accounting. This includes managing all expenses, bookkeeping and account management.

  • Technical Co-Founder at Feathery
    Jun 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs

    As Co-Founder of Feathery, I represented the technical engineering responsibilities that included the development of the scraping and caching algorithms to make sure the platform was as fast and as powerful to the customer.