Lenses Appoints Tun Shwe to Lead Real-Time AI Strategy As Business Modernization Demands Grow

New York City, US – October 23, 2025 – Lenses.io, a data streaming innovation leader whose software helps developers power the world’s largest businesses, today announces that it is strengthening its AI commitment by appointing Tun Shwe as Head of AI and releasing the MCP Server for real-time streaming. The company will accelerate AI innovation across Lenses’s real-time data ecosystems, working with customers to design the next generation of AI tools that boost engineering productivity and use real-time data to operate more intelligently.

Businesses that don’t operate in real-time face an existential threat. While many organizations have adopted LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, these systems do not have the requisite real-time business context to meet evolving consumer demands. At the same time, most organizations lack the technical skills and infrastructure needed to keep pace with AI’s advancement.

Lenses.io addresses both challenges with its new MCP Server that enables teams to use AI to build agentic AI systems powered by real-time context. It lowers the barrier to software development, enabling teams to develop solutions much more quickly and without assistance from engineering.

Shwe’s more than 20 years of engineering and innovation experience was applied to today’s MCP Server launch, which bridges the gap between AI model reasoning and action based on enterprise streaming data systems powered by technologies such as Apache Kafka. “Thanks to LLMs and MCP, we are entering an era where we can build products that simply weren’t possible before,” said Tun Shwe, Head of AI, Lenses.io. “In addition to empowering engineering teams, the Lenses MCP Server provides the AI systems they build with seamless access to real-time data from Apache Kafka, enabling them to make decisions based on the latest information.”

Shwe and Lenses.io are already helping customers realize value from MCP Server integration.

“MCP is fundamental to our ongoing transformation into an AI-powered business,” said Reza Banikazemi, VP of Engineering at Arity. “Integrating Lenses MCP into our engineers’ AI code editors allows them to remove much of the complexity and streaming domain knowledge required to build real-time systems. This has accelerated the speed of development from weeks to hours. We’re now looking at Lenses MCP to give all our business workflow agents access to streams for real-time context.”

“To stay competitive, businesses must empower engineers with AI tools to build agents that can access real-time information – that’s exactly what our MCP does,” said Guillaume Aymé, CEO at Lenses.io. “We are at the forefront of the real-time data industry, helping global brands use AI to respond to customer demands in the moment. We are pleased to have Shwe join the team and look forward to his contributions as we continue to advance our AI strategy.”

To learn more about the MCP Server, please visit https://lenses.io/kafka-ai/.

About Lenses.io

Lenses.io is the leader in real-time data streaming, providing the world’s largest organizations with the AI-assisted solutions necessary to deploy and integrate AI at scale. Lenses.io’s Data Operating Platform ensures that users of all skill levels are harnessing real-time data to power AI-driven systems and agents to respond to customer demands in the moment. Lenses.io is headquartered in New York and London.