Calvin French-Owen
Co-founder and former OpenAI Codex web product engineer who helped build developer-focused coding agents, and co-founder of Segment with experience scaling developer tools and instrumentation.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 46min
We're All Addicted To Claude Code
Calvin French-Owen, co-founder of Segment and former OpenAI Codex web product engineer, helped build developer-focused coding agents. He explains why CLI-based agents are taking off. They compare Codex, Claude Code and Cursor. Conversation covers context engineering, distribution via CLI tools, how agents shift engineering roles, and a future of personal agent clouds.
Aug 29, 2018 • 1h 2min
Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Interview)
"The Changelog" podcast features Calvin French-Owen, Co-founder and CTO of Segment, along with Alex Noonan, a Software Engineer at Segment. They discuss their transition from a monorepo to microservices and back to a monorepo, highlighting the challenges faced and the benefits of the single service approach. They explore topics such as managing numerous microservices, scaling infrastructure, performance issues, and the design and implementation process of their single service called centrifuge. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding the right fit for your infrastructure and team when considering microservices.
