# Zygmunt Dyras

> SVP of Engineering at WP Engine. Writes about leading engineering teams in the agent era and builds the infrastructure agents need.

Zygmunt Dyras is SVP of Engineering at WP Engine, where he leads engineering teams across the US and Europe. He writes about how AI agents change engineering leadership and builds open-source agent infrastructure, including LOCI-DB, a spatial memory for physical AI. Earlier he held engineering roles at UBS, SolarWinds and IBM.

Site: https://zygmuntdyras.com/
Role: SVP of Engineering, WP Engine
Location: Austin, Texas
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zdyras/
Profile: https://github.com/zd87pl
Profile: https://wpengine.com/leadership-team/zygmunt-dyras/

## Essays

- [Low Context, High Stakes: Leading Engineering Across Four Cultures in the Age of AI](https://zygmuntdyras.com/low-context-high-stakes/) (2026-10-27): The US, Poland, Ireland and India split along two lines, hierarchy and restraint, with Poland alone on uncertainty, and agree on drive and pragmatism. What Hofstede's data and the Culture Compass tell distributed engineering teams, and how AI helps and hurts.
- [Building LOCI Companion, Part 1: A Personal AI Assistant That Remembers What You See](https://zygmuntdyras.com/building-loci-companion-part-1/) (2026-10-27): LOCI Companion is a personal AI assistant with vision memory: a small camera worn on the chest that remembers what you saw, where and when, so you can ask about it later. Part 1: the idea, the hardware on my desk today, and what comes next.
- [Agents Don’t Need a Better Harness. They Need a Kernel.](https://zygmuntdyras.com/agents-need-a-kernel/) (2026-10-26): Today's agent frameworks are harnesses: they wrap a model call and hope state survives. Long-running agents need what operating systems figured out decades ago — a kernel.

## Pages

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