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title: "About rote™ — by modiqo"
description: "The team and origin behind rote™: agent harness work at the intersection of protocol discipline, tracing, and systems engineering."
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last_updated: "2026-05-01"
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# About rote™

> Nobody has built this before. That's the point.

Agent harnesses sit at a strange intersection — protocol discipline, type theory, distributed tracing, systems engineering, the stuff that makes software survive contact with reality.

Most teams have one of these. We accidentally assembled all of them.

## Team

### Chetan Conikee
Financial protocols (ACH, SWIFT, OFAC), High Frequency Trading Systems, hypervisors, computational neuroscience.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conikee/

### Hubert Plociniczak
Scala compilers, GraalVM, Erlang, distributed tracing.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hubert-plociniczak/

### Roberts Pumpurs
Rust, Solana, High Frequency Trading Systems, OpenTelemetry, trace learning.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberts-pumpurs-3b24b6159/

### Debasish Ghosh
Two best-selling books on domain modeling, a career in Scala and Rust.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debasishgh/

## Closing

We're not experts in agents. Nobody is yet. We're experts in the primitives underneath them — and that turns out to matter more.

Talk to authors: https://scheduler.zoom.us/chetan-conikee/30-mins-with-chetan