Code Story Podcast: Season 6 Episodes

Because we appreciate our listeners so much, we are declaring that March is Mentorcam March on the Code Story podcast. Along side our regular release schedule, each Wednesday, we are going to be interviewing some of the top mentors on the platform, about the topics you know, you love, and you'd love to know more about.

Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC.

Ben was part of a company called Network Solutions, which faced many technical hurdles in the absence of payment gateways. Two years ago, Ben began exploring solutions to these challenges in the payments industry.

At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets. During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database, to help solve with these sorts of problems.

Tommy worked his way up and through the Quiznos organization, specifically landing in ops services. When Quiznos took a turn for the worst, he was tasked with figuring out audit reporting, leading to the creation of a solution that validated market demand.

Stephen Mathai-Davis, founder of Q.ai, shares his journey from professional kickboxing to Wall Street, where the 2008 crash inspired him to democratize institutional investment tools for everyday investors.

Roy connected with his college friend and co-founder to discuss his experience at SoFi. They realized that developers are repeatedly building the 'plumbing' of financial products due to the lack of a developer platform that allows them to focus on their end products.

In this episode of Code Story, Tyler Rohrer discusses his journey during the pandemic and the challenges of remote work. He shares insights on developing a cloud platform for remote users and the critical feedback he received from a former customer regarding security concerns.

When Mike interviewed at a large company, he expected that there would be some sort of structured process and for it to be organized. He found out it wasn't... he chatted with multiple people, who all asked him the same questions. When approached to join a team, and build something to solve these problems - it took him no time at all to figure out he could build something better.

Chakri Devarakonda discusses his journey from security testing to quality engineering and his current role at Tavant on the Code Story podcast.

Austin Parker has been at Lightstep for 4 years, right after stealth mode ended. He has helped enable the company to support developers through their innovative tech stack, built by industry experts.

In 2015, Tyson started another company who focused on migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud. After being acquired, he realized they kept doing the same thing over and over again at the larger company. At 18,000 feet in the air while climbing a mountain, he made the decision to quit his job and build a solution to help people go to cloud.

Rune is an expert in funding your startup, and is a multi time founder. Prior to Mentorcam, he founded three startups and had one successful exit. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley VCs and high-profile angel investors, and also took Mentorcam through Y Combinator.

This episode features Eric Koslow, Co-founder of Lattice, discussing the concept of Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. He shares insights from his engineering background at TeeSpring and his current venture, VStream.

This episode features Dr. Gordon Jones discussing his innovative solution for identity security, inspired by a student's idea and his own experiences with background checks. He explores how blockchain technology can address these challenges effectively.

Harshil Parikh, co-founder of Tromzo, discusses the creation story of his cybersecurity startup on the Code Story podcast, born from repeated challenges in making security programs successful.

Vedran Cindrić, founder of Treblle, shares his journey from growing up in rural Croatia and running a design agency to building an API observability platform on the Code Story podcast.

Code Story podcast bonus episode featuring Dan Langevin, co-founder of Vericred, discussing his journey from consulting to tech and how building credentialing software for doctors led to identifying a broader need for fluid insurance data.

When COVID hit the world, and the topic of global mobility was pushed into view. Franzi, along with her co-founders, used to live abroad, and experienced the lack of support when moving to a new area and settling in. They wanted to come up with a solution to help people during this relocation process.

Aria Hahn, founder of Pocketed, shares her journey from studying business and pursuing a PhD in Genomix to discovering computer science and co-founding a grant acquisition platform.

Code Story podcast announces its Season 6 trailer, highlighting upcoming episodes featuring founders and tech leaders discussing MVPs, scaling, team building, and feature prioritization.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Daniel McElroy, founder of the West Virginia Coding Club, discussing how Treehouse is used to teach young people coding skills.

Prabhjot Singh, founder of Pyze, shares his 22-year journey in enterprise software, from Citibank to startups, and how he pivoted from B2C to enterprise by focusing on process optimization.

Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data.

Hywel Carver, co-founder of Skiller Whale, shares his journey from writing C code at age 9 to building a platform that develops developers through incremental, personalized learning moments.

Code Story podcast bonus episode features Jon Dahl, founder of Mux, who transitioned from philosophy and theology academia to teaching himself to code and running a dev shop.

Michel Tricot, co-founder of Airbyte, discusses his journey from managing thousands of data connectors at LiveRamp to creating Airbyte, a platform designed to simplify data movement for every company.

Joe Pettersson, CTO of Banked, shares his journey from law to tech and how he joined the bank-to-bank payments startup prior to its seed round, optimizing team, process, and platform for the regulated payments space.

Stephen Blum, co-founder of PubNub, shares his journey from game development inspiration to building a real-time communication platform, along with his passion for investing in early-stage AI and API companies.

In his prior startup, he went through the painstaking process of becoming SOC2 certified. This experience stuck with him - so much so, that when he and his co-founder ventured out to start something new, they decided to create something to make this easier.

Code Story podcast features an interview with Cynthia Kao, Executive Director of Operation Code, discussing how the organization supports military service members and spouses in learning to code through tools like Treehouse.

Code Story podcast episode 21 features Douwe Maan discussing his journey from early programming in the Netherlands to becoming employee number 10 at GitLab and eventually founding Meltano.

Blake Garrett, founder of Aceable, shares his journey from growing up in the Bay Area observing his father's startup involvement to teaching himself key skills and building mobile apps that led to the creation of Aceable, an online certification and drivers ed platform.

Code Story podcast episode 8 features Ev Kontsevoy, founder of Teleport, discussing his journey from tinkering with hardware as a child to building Mailgun and eventually creating Teleport to consolidate cloud service access into a single platform.

This episode features a replay of a discussion with Alexander Deeb about Classhook, a platform aimed at making videos searchable and enhancing engagement in educational settings. The conversation explores innovative ideas for improving learning experiences through popular media.

Aaron Bromberg, founder of StimScience, discusses his journey from management consulting and roles at Bose and Amazon to building Somnee, a personalized brain stimulation device designed to improve sleep.

Brandy Whalen and Ryan Estes share the creation story of Kitcaster, a podcast booking agency born from their complementary backgrounds and a shared itch to start a new project.

Stephanie didn't know what sort of business she wanted to start. That was until her brother got frustrated with looking for a job, and together, they figured out there must be another way. They did some research, and used their knowledge of popular dating apps, to create a simple, swipe-able platform.

In this episode, Robert Cooke discusses his journey of validating a new idea by engaging with top-tier banks to identify common challenges. He shares insights on building a data platform centered around three key pillars of data delivery.

Reed McGinley-Stempel, co-founder and CEO of Stytch, shares his journey from management consulting at Bain & Company to working on adaptive authentication at Plaid, which inspired him to co-found Stytch.

Code Story podcast features Vatasha White, a Senior Software Engineer at Courier, discussing her experience with the notification infrastructure platform and what excites her about the product.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Max Samuel, a venture capitalist and lawyer formerly of Thiel Capital, discussing how VCs evaluate startups, early-stage investing, and career paths into venture capital.

Andreas Creten, founder of madewithlove, shares his journey from starting a company at 18 to pivoting from a traditional development agency into providing interim CTO and technical strategy services.

Code Story podcast bonus episode featuring John Egan, co-founder of Kintaba, who shares his journey from electrical engineering to building an incident management platform inspired by feedback from former Facebook colleagues.

Code Story podcast features Jim Fagan of Global Cloud Xchange discussing his journey from finance to technology and how the company pivoted to combine infrastructure with software to provide managed network services for over 140 multinational companies.

Andre Ferraz, co-founder of Incognia, shares the origin story of creating a unique identity solution for end users based on location data, born from a concept he explored twelve years ago.

Alexander Deeb, co-founder and CEO of Classhook, shares his origin story on the Code Story podcast, describing how his passion for education and equitable opportunities led him to create a platform that makes videos searchable and improves school engagement through popular media.

Or Weis, founder of Permit.io, shares his journey from childhood programmer to IDF reverse engineer to co-founding Rookout and ultimately creating Permit.io to solve the recurring problem of building authorization into software.

Code Story podcast episode featuring Patrick Malatack of Matrix Partners discussing notifications as infrastructure, drawing on his experience at Twilio and Microsoft.

Panos Siozos, co-founder of LearnWorlds, discusses the origin story of the online learning platform on the Code Story podcast, tracing it back to his post-graduate studies in educational technology with his co-founders in Greece.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Omer Rosenbaum, CTO of Swimm, discussing his journey from high school Pascal programming and Israeli military service to co-founding a company that fixes broken knowledge-sharing and onboarding processes for engineering teams.

Code Story podcast features a bonus Mentorcam episode with Josh Campbell, founder and CEO of Human Improvement and So Gay Rose, discussing brand building strategies for consumer packaged goods.

John Myers, co-founder of Gretel.ai, shares his journey from a military family and Air Force career through NSA and cybersecurity work in Afghanistan to founding a data anonymization startup.

Irina Bednova, co-founder of Cordless, shares her journey from programming as a kid in Russia to building a telephony-focused customer service product after noticing the gap in phone support tools while working at Monzo.

Trevor Marshall, co-founder and CTO of Current, shares his journey from studying music at Juilliard to discovering a passion for math and computer science, eventually building a banking product aimed at making crypto accessible to everyone.

Marin Smiljanic, co-founder of Omnisearch, shares his journey from Croatia to Vancouver and how frustrations with dense training content at Amazon led him to build a search tool spanning video, audio, and text.

Beier Cai, co-founder of Commit.dev and first engineer at HootSuite, discusses his journey through 16 years in early-stage startups and his passion for helping engineers grow their careers.

Code Story podcast episode featuring Troy Goode, Co-founder and CEO of Courier, discussing the company's recent fundraise with Google Ventures, enhanced mobile functionality, and the role of notifications in user engagement.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Dr.

Code Story podcast promotes Goodpods, an award-winning podcasting app that enables users to discover, recommend, and share podcast episodes with friends and experts.

Bobby Gruenewald, a serial entrepreneur and pilot, shares his journey from building websites for car dealerships to creating the YouVersion Bible App, inspired by his desire to use technology to read the Bible more regularly.

Todd Larsen's journey from audio engineering to tech through self-taught coding led him through roles at Groupon and Digit.co, ultimately inspiring him to create Tech Leaders as a way to scale his consulting expertise.

Code Story podcast episode 27 features Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, discussing her journey from growing up in Cupertino to building community-powered platforms.

Matt Cowell, CEO of QuantHub, shares his journey from chemistry to tech, detailing how he transitioned through Accenture and SaaS startups before co-founding QuantHub from an AI consultancy's proof of concept.

Patrick Bryant, entrepreneur and founder of Harbor Entrepreneur Center, discusses the creation story of Code & Trust on the Code Story podcast, explaining how four partners merged their dev teams and software products to form one unified company.

Christine Spang, co-founder of Nylas, shares her journey from growing up in a family of engineers to falling in love with software through an RPG game, eventually leading her to co-found an email API company.

Code Story podcast bonus episode featuring Graham Morby, a Senior Software Engineer, discussing his programming journey from Commodore 64 BASIC to modern web development with Python, PHP, JS, and Vue.

Andrew Salvadore discusses the creation story of Coinrule, an automated crypto trading platform born from the founders' frustration with missing events in the 24/7 crypto market.

Mentorcam's Co-founder and CTO Benjamin Balazs discusses product-building topics including MVPs, technical debt, product-market fit, and scalability on the Code Story podcast.

Barak Schoster, co-founder of Bridgecrew, discusses his journey starting the cloud security company in February 2019 after identifying a gap in streamlining and automating cloud environment security.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Dustin Usey, a Treehouse graduate and technical evangelist, discussing his career transition from the Oil & Gas industry into technology through online learning.

Perry Zheng, a former software engineer at Amazon, Twitter, and Lyft, created Cash Flow Portal to simplify the complicated process of syndicating multi-family real estate deals.

Matt Pierce, founder of Immediate, shares his journey from a 17-year healthcare tech career to building an on-demand pay solution after a prospective client revealed that employee turnover driven by financial stress was her real problem.

Code Story podcast episode 19 features Kirk Marple, founder of Unstruk Data, discussing his journey from aspiring chef to tech entrepreneur and how his experience at General Motors with media data and computer vision led him to build a platform for unstructured data.

Addison Higham, Chief Architect at StreamNative, shares the creation story of the cloud-native event streaming platform built on Apache Pulsar in this bonus episode of the Code Story podcast.

Temilola Adebayo, co-founder of HumanSquad, shares her journey from film production in Nigeria to building immigration support tools in Canada on the Code Story podcast.

Code Story podcast episode 24 features Matt Young of UserVoice discussing his tech background, personal interests like pinball and DJing, and his journey as VP of Engineering scaling the company into the enterprise space.

Raghav R S, founder of Animaker, shares his journey from childhood product developer to building a video and animation tool used by 14 million people on the Code Story podcast.

Code Story podcast shares a bonus preview episode featuring Jacob Goldstein's new show "What's Your Problem?", where he interviews Zipline co-founder Keenan Wyrobek about drone delivery challenges.

Mike Cruz, co-founder of Protégé, discusses his journey from growing up in Guam to building tech products at companies like Discovery Channel and Trunk Club, and how he created Protégé to help people break into the tech and music industries.

Code Story podcast episode 15 features Itiel Schwartz, founder of Komodor, discussing his journey from studying computer science and psychology to building a Kubernetes troubleshooting tool.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Liran Haimovitch, co-founder of Rookout, discussing how he and his co-founder applied their cyber security background to build a platform enabling instant changes to application logging and observability without requiring a full release.

Rob Carpenter, founder of Valyant, shares the origin story of his company on the Code Story podcast, explaining how a quest to create holographic employees led to solving conversational AI.

Code Story podcast bonus episode features Microsoft employees Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba discussing how Microsoft has expanded their career horizons and provided growth opportunities.

Code Story podcast episode 22 features Matt Provo, founder of StormForge, discussing his journey from building HVAC software to discovering Kubernetes-based resource scaling solutions.

Brian Vallelunga, CEO and co-founder of Doppler, shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, from childhood tinkering to working at Uber and eventually identifying the need for better secrets and environment variable management.

Notifications North Star is a podcast episode featuring Stephanie Griffith, an email and SMS marketing expert, discussing promotional messaging strategies, notification preferences, and notifications as a UX layer.

Saksham Sharda of Outgrow discusses the company's origin story on the Code Story podcast, explaining how an app-building estimator tool evolved into a platform enabling others to create their own interactive content.

Jack Naglieri, founder of Panther Labs, shares his journey from studying Cyber Security at George Mason to building a cloud-based security detection platform after realizing AI models for breach detection often lack sufficient signal compared to human intuition.

Verl Allen, founder of Claravine, shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, describing how his 12 years at Adobe exposed him to data-level integration problems during acquisitions.

Alexander Luksidadi, an immigrant to Canada and co-founder of Rose Rocket, shares his journey from aspiring IBM employee to startup founder building broker software for the freight and logistics space.

Liam Gerada discusses the origin story of Krepling, a headless eCommerce platform born from his and his brother's frustrations as non-developer merchants building online stores in Malta.

Lindsay Tjepkema, a B2B marketer with over 15 years of experience, shares the creation story of Casted, a platform she co-founded to help companies manage and maximize their audio and video content.

Savarth Misra, a former corporate commercial lawyer in Asia and the UK, founded ContractPodAI after recognizing the lack of tech adoption in contract management and the opportunity for disruption.

Maria Meier, co-founder of Phantasma Labs, shares her journey from backend engineer to startup founder, building learning models that simulate how pedestrians act in traffic.

Shaunak Roy, founder of Yellowdig, shares the creation story of his social-media-inspired learning platform on the Code Story podcast.

Jennifer Smith, founder and CEO of Scribe, shares her unconventional path to tech—from interning at Lehman Brothers to management consulting to Silicon Valley venture capital—on the Code Story podcast.

Adam Newman, founder of Pyrl, shares his journey from growing up in New York to creating a win-win solution around consumer purchase data ownership and data privacy on the Code Story podcast.

Code Story podcast features George Georgallides, founder of Basis Health, discussing his journey from Cyprus to Los Angeles and his mission to automate a healthy lifestyle through health tech.

Lars Grønnegaard, founder of Dreamdata, shares his journey from being a product leader to creating a B2B attribution platform after recognizing that revenue claiming was prone to human error and bias.

Mark Porter, MongoDB's CTO, shares his journey from early programming for the Department of Education to joining MongoDB's board in 2019 and eventually stepping off to become CTO.

Code Story podcast episode 16 features Jimmy Jacobson of Stake.rent, who shares how a pandemic job cancellation led him to co-found a startup offering cash back to renters for paying their rent.

Code Story podcast episode 25 features Tom Hacohen, founder of Svix, discussing how a friend's question about webhooks led him to build a webhook delivery platform.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode interviewing Jason Gilmore, CEO of Treehouse, discussing his path to leading the company, its future strategy, and why learners should choose Treehouse over competitors.