
Willem Pienaar is co-founder and CTO of Cleric, where he is building an autonomous AI SRE. He is also the creator of Feast and has worked on MLOps and open-source tooling.
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Willem Pienaar — co-founder/CTO of Cleric and creator of Feast, the open-source feature store (7k+ GitHub stars) — brings end-to-end credibility, from building ML infrastructure at Gojek to leading an AI agent that autonomously investigates production incidents. His recent work centers on making AI agents reliable enough to trust with live systems, grounded in real deployments such as BlaBlaCar (in production with Cleric since early 2025).