Poe
Founder, Nyantrace.ai

Building observability and governance for AI agents — so AI product leads can ship autonomous systems their customers trust.

Poe Poe Myint Swe is a founder building Nyantrace.ai — middleware for AI agents that provides observability and governance. Former VP of Engineering at 99.co, now pursuing an MS in Management of Technology at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. This site documents the journey: frameworks, case studies, and original thinking on AI agents, disruption theory, startup strategy, decentralized credentials, AI labor market impacts, and invisible labor in academic collaboration.

Former VP of Engineering, 99.co · MS Management of Technology, NYU Tandon
From the Founder’s Diary
“Every founder faces one question: extract algorithmic rent, or pay it.”
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Projects & Talks
The Journey
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Now
Nyantrace.ai — Founder
Middleware for AI agents — observability to trace every action and visualize coordination, governance to enforce policies with audit logs and kill switches. All threads unite.
Tech Business People
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New York · 2024–Now
NYU — MS Management of Technology
Left a VP role to fill the gap. Learning the strategy, finance, and marketing needed to actually build a company — not just the product. And taking the time to figure out what to build and who to build it with.
Tech Business People
4
Singapore · 2022–2024
99.co — Manager to VP of Engineering
Went from writing code to leading the people who write code. Learned how to align engineering with business outcomes — then hit the ceiling. Realized I was building someone else's dream with only half the toolkit.
Business People
3
Singapore · 2019–2022
Shield — Anti-Fraud Systems
Deep dive into AI/ML and device fingerprinting. Discovered that great technology alone doesn't win — you have to know how to sell it. First real taste of the business side.
Tech Business
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Singapore · 2015–2019
99.co — Mobile Engineer
First real job. Built the property marketplace apps from scratch and learned what it takes to ship something millions of people actually use.
Tech People
1
Myanmar
Mandalay Tech University
Where it started. Fell in love with building things with code — and realized early that technology could reach people nothing else could.
Tech