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title: "Architecting Safety at Scale with HopSkipDrive's CTO"
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# Architecting Safety at Scale with HopSkipDrive's CTO

Code Story | Startup Podcast for Technical Founders — S4 Favorite: Architecting Safety at Scale: The Code Behind Real-Time Routing and HopSkipDrive’s Logistics Engine with CTO Sophy Lee Press Play to Listen While You Browse S4 Favorite: Architecting Safety at Scale: The Code Behind Real-Time Routing and HopSkipDrive’s Logistics Engine with CTO Sophy Lee Code Story | Startup Podcast for Technical Founders 0:00 29:50 1× Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid bike racer, mainly on the road, and a triathlete. The combination of living in difference places, school, and racing lead her into the tech world. In fact, she moved to San Francisco to race - though he had taught herself to program post college and had an idea brewing in her head on how to become a better engineer in San Fran. Sophy has been working on her current product for 6.5 years, starting at a different company formerly known as Shuttle. The product was built originally to map out a trip from point a to b, and have a driver give a protected ride to a child. Four years ago, her current company acquired the product, at which point she joined as CTO to lead the Technology & Information Security team. This is the creation story of HopSkipDrive. Links https://www.hopskipdrive.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophylee Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Amazing tools we use: If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast . Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain , sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart . Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Pocket Casts , Google Play , Breaker , Youtube , or the podcasting app of your choice. Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries : https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Latest Season of the Podcast is Sponsored By