S10 E1: The API-to-Agent Translation Layer: Building, Governing, and Securing MCP Servers for the AI Ecosystem with Sagar Batchu, Co-Founder & CEO of Speakeasy
episodePreviously titled “S10 E1: Sagar Batchu, Speakeasy” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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A lot of our customers were spending a lot of time, a lot of support time onboarding users onto the API. Like the table stakes for what they were providing the users was just the classic three pane documentation site. Now this is the classic left-hand view, middle view, right-hand view you've probably seen for a lot of API docs. And that just wasn't enough. That, to me, felt like the lazy thing to do, throw up a Swagger doc site and send it to your customers. We actually started to innovate around a set of React and developer portal components that would allow you to stitch together a really interactive and guided onboarding experience. My name's Sagar. I'm CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy.
This is CodeStory. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Six months moonlighting. Who share what it takes to change an industry. Who built the teams that have their back. Keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as a group. Total waste of time. The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve. Took it off the shelf and dusted it off and tried to begin. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it. It's not just about technology. All this and more on CodeStory. I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today, how Sagar Bhatiu is making crafting API experiences a cinch, where every API is up-to-date, making integration easy. This episode is sponsored by Speakeasy.
Grow your API user adoption and improve engineering velocity with friction-free integration experiences. With Speakeasy's platform, you can now automatically generate SDKs in 10 languages and Terraform providers in minutes. Visit speakeasy.com slash codestory and generate your first SDK for free. This message is sponsored by QA Wolf. QA Wolf gets engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage and helps them ship five times faster by reducing QA cycles from hours to minutes. With over 100 five-star reviews on G2 and customer testimonials from SalesLoft, Grotta, and Autotrader, you're in good hands. Join the Wolfpack at QAwolf.com. Sagar Bachu was born in Sacramento, but moved to Bangalore after a decade.
He has always been interested in how things work and majored in physics at his university. Towards the end of his studies, he crammed in a ton of computer science classes and fell in love with the craft. He's worked on firmware, enterprise software, and eventually went to LiveRamp, building new experiences for them. But outside of tech, he loves pickleball, enjoys growing coffee, and loves reading about historical events. In the past, Sagar and his team took on an API initiative to invest in internal API development experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. This is the creation story of Speakeasy.
Speakeasy is a platform that really helps you take your API to market. It helps you distribute your API to your customers, give them all of the tools they need to have an amazing onboarding experience and also long-term usage. So I really got into this when I was working at LiveRAM. We were a really big ETL product, and transforming from an ETL product into an API product was this big initiative that happened. And doing that's really hard, like running APIs at scale for a company that had many hundreds of millions of ARR running through it, many dozens of high-value customers, billions of requests a second. It was a really gargantuan task that the engineering team at the company undertook. And as part of that, we built this fantastic API platform initiative. And at its core, the purpose of this initiative was to provide all developers of the company a consistent way to develop and ship APIs.
So investing in our internal developer experience was the way that we decided we were going to make sure our customers had a great developer experience. Through that whole initiative, I ended up spending a lot of time on it, thinking about all the tools and building the tools that we needed to actually make that happen.
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