Mara Oduya

Before joining Protocol Wire, Mara spent five years building ML infrastructure at an ad-tech company, which is the polite way of saying she has personally paged herself at 3 a.m. over a feature store outage. She writes the AI beat with a builder's skepticism: she wants to see the eval, not the demo. Her reporting has traced how agent frameworks actually get adopted (or quietly ripped out) inside real engineering orgs, and she keeps a running, only-half-joking tally of AI product launches that walk back their own benchmark claims within a quarter.