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The End of DevOps Toil: StarSling’s AI Agents Take Over

Ksenia Yevtushenko -

StarSling is a next-generation developer portal designed to eliminate the invisible tax developers pay when dealing with non-coding tasks. Founded in 2025 and part of Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, StarSling introduces an agentic homepage that automates time-consuming tasks like deployments, debugging, incident resolution, and performance optimization. This isn't just another developer dashboard — it's an AI-powered control center for your software delivery lifecycle.

Instead of juggling multiple tools like GitHub, Sentry, or Linear to manage bugs, exceptions, and pull requests, developers can now interact with one unified interface. Click an issue, press “Autofix,” and StarSling's intelligent agents trigger a repair process that culminates in an auto-generated Pull Request. No context switching, no tool fatigue — just streamlined productivity.

How Did the Founders’ Backgrounds Shape StarSling?

StarSling is the brainchild of Yonas Beshawred and Daniel Worku, two seasoned tech founders and builders who understand developers because they’ve been building for them their entire careers.

  • Yonas previously founded StackShare, an online community with 1.5 million developers that offered SaaS tools for enterprises, integrating tech stack data into internal systems. He led StackShare to a successful exit to FOSSA, gaining firsthand experience in developer productivity tooling at scale.
  • Daniel built and scaled Netflix’s Internal Developer Portal (IDP), known as the Netflix Console, which became the most-used internal tool by over 3,000 engineers and managers. Prior to that, he worked at Facebook on its AI camera stack used by over 100 million users daily across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

With StarSling, Yonas and Daniel are leveraging their unique experiences to bring the benefits of high-quality internal tooling to any engineering team, small or large, with the power of AI baked in from day one.

What Problem Does StarSling Solve?

Modern software engineering teams face a productivity bottleneck not within the code itself, but around it. Developers are frequently pulled away from their main focus — writing code — by a long list of secondary tasks:

  • Fixing production exceptions
  • Maintaining flaky CI builds
  • Updating documentation and changelogs
  • Investigating outages and incidents
  • Rotating expired credentials
  • Debugging preview environments
  • Performance tuning and query optimization

These chores often occupy up to 20% of a developer’s time, and they span across disparate tools — GitHub for source code, Sentry for error tracking, Linear for project management, CircleCI for CI/CD, PagerDuty for alerts, Supabase for databases, and Vercel for deployments.

StarSling unifies all these tools under one roof and deploys AI agents to tackle tasks that were previously manual, repetitive, and error-prone. It’s the digital operations assistant every engineer has secretly wished for.

How Does StarSling Work?

At the heart of StarSling is an agentic developer homepage — a centralized dashboard where developers can see all their open tasks and trigger AI-powered actions instantly. The homepage aggregates:

  • GitHub Pull Requests
  • Sentry exceptions
  • Linear tickets
  • CI/CD build failures
  • PagerDuty incidents
  • Environment alerts

Each issue is presented with actionable buttons — most notably, “Autofix”, which summons an AI agent capable of understanding the context and crafting a repair automatically. Once complete, the agent opens a Pull Request, ready for human review.

In addition to issue resolution, StarSling agents assist with:

  • Writing or updating documentation
  • Investigating performance anomalies
  • Managing secrets and credentials
  • Monitoring and auto-tuning systems

It’s not just automation — it’s orchestration of engineering workflows through intelligent agents that understand context, code, and intent.

What Makes StarSling Different from Existing Tools?

While there are many tools focused on specific parts of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle), StarSling’s key innovation is orchestration across tools and automation via agents.

Traditional IDPs like Backstage focus on surfacing services and documentation. DevOps tools like Jenkins or CircleCI focus on automation. StarSling bridges the gap between visibility and action. It doesn’t just show you what’s broken — it fixes it, learns from it, and continues operating quietly in the background.

StarSling is not just a dashboard; it’s the execution layer for all the dev tools you already use.

What Is the Immediate Roadmap for StarSling?

In its current form, StarSling is already live with its AI-powered developer homepage and autofix capabilities. The team is working on:

  • Agent chaining for complex workflows like incident investigation
  • Customizable task prioritization based on organizational context
  • Plugin support for integrating even more tools beyond GitHub, Sentry, and Linear
  • Granular permissioning for secure automation within enterprise teams

StarSling’s goal is to become the portal, not just to your dev tools, but to every AI agent working behind the scenes to keep your systems running smoothly.

What Is StarSling’s Long-Term Vision?

The team at StarSling envisions a future where engineers spend 0% of their time on deployments, performance tuning, incident response, or debugging — a future where AI agents do the heavy lifting so developers can focus solely on innovation and impact.

This doesn’t mean eliminating human engineers — it means elevating them. By offloading the grunt work and operational toil, developers are free to think creatively, build faster, and iterate more often.

In this vision, every company, no matter its size, will have a fully automated DevOps assistant available from day one, not cobbled together over the years. StarSling aims to democratize the power of internal developer portals with AI agents that evolve with the team.

Who Is StarSling For?

StarSling is built for:

  • Fast-scaling startups looking to reduce time-to-market and avoid operational debt
  • Midsize engineering teams overwhelmed by CI/CD, SRE, and bug triage noise
  • Enterprise companies seeking better productivity, incident handling, and compliance

If your team uses GitHub, Sentry, Linear, CircleCI, or any modern engineering stack — StarSling is your shortcut to efficiency.

Conclusion

StarSling is ushering in a new era for engineering teams — one where developer portals are no longer passive dashboards but proactive, intelligent agents working alongside human engineers.

With industry veterans at the helm and a product already delivering real value, StarSling is well on its way to becoming the default command center for modern developers. As AI continues to transform the software industry, StarSling stands out as a pioneer, turning automation into augmentation, and time sinks into solved tasks.