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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story podcast episode S12 E19 features Thomas Schlegel, Principal Software Engineer at Built, discussing the automation of underwriting and risk mitigation across $3 trillion in real estate finance data. Schlegel shares his journey from rural Virginia tinkerer to VP of Engineering and Head of Innovation, emphasizing low pride of authorship and iterative exploration over premature optimization for scale.
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Summary
Code Story podcast episode S12 E19 features Thomas Schlegel, Principal Software Engineer at Built, discussing the automation of underwriting and risk mitigation across $3 trillion in real estate finance data. Schlegel shares his journey from rural Virginia tinkerer to VP of Engineering and Head of Innovation, emphasizing low pride of authorship and iterative exploration over premature optimization for scale.
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real-estate-finance · underwriting-automation · startup · software-engineering · risk-mitigation · innovation · podcast
Key entities
Thomas Schlegel (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · Built (organization, 0.97) · underwriting automation (concept, 0.9) · risk mitigation (concept, 0.88) · real estate finance (concept, 0.95) · Nashville, TN (location, 0.92) · Code Story Podcast S12 E19 (event, 0.95) · Mezmo (organization, 0.7) · Braingrid.ai (organization, 0.7)
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transcript · language en · status final
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claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 24 Jul 2026