Tyler Ayers is a Principal Architect on the Apigee team at Google Cloud, where he helps shape the future of AI and agent gateways. With a career that stretches back to the “craftsmanship” era of hand-coded apps and deep-trench debugging, Tyler has spent decades building robust, API-first solutions. He’s thrilled to no longer type all code by hand, but still brings that foundational grit to the cutting edge of AI infrastructure.