Code Story Podcast: Season 7 Episodes

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Code Story podcast episode S7E10 features an interview with Joe Duffy, Co-Founder and CEO of Pulumi, discussing updates on the company and its Infrastructure as Code technology.

Liam Patterson, CEO and co-founder of Bidnamic, shares his entrepreneurial journey from selling sweets at school to building a print on-demand company, which led to creating Bidnamic after finding existing Google Shopping campaign tools lacking.

Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems.

Ashleigh Wilson discusses her journey from a profit-focused industry to envisioning a customer-centric approach. She shares insights on how to shift power back to the customers and improve the industry.

Conor Carmody discusses the creation story of the Furthr Festival, an initiative aimed at building Ireland's entrepreneur and startup culture through strategic business formation, networking, fundraising, and community building.

Nick is the co-author of the book 'If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes'. The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations.

Navid and his team explored the world of radiology, from a technology and data standpoint. After applying the same thought process and/or algorithm for predicting space weather, they processed millions of mammogram images to detect cancer in their patients. And it worked... really well.

Nora Jones, founder of Jeli.io, shares her journey from working at Jet.com, Netflix, and Slack to building an incident analysis platform on the Code Story podcast.

As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it.

Casey Kipfer, co-founder of Justifi, discusses how his team identified a customer need for in-house payments expertise and an orchestration layer to abstract multiple partners and services, leading to the creation of Justifi.

Prior to his current role, Faisal built and grew his Computex business to serve the larger part of the United States. Calian took noticed of the business, and stepped in to acquire their footprint and expand into the US, specifically around Cloud & Cybersecurity.

Code Story podcast bonus episode featuring Ryan Buick, co-founder of Canvas, a tool that provides a spreadsheet interface on top of data sources, born from his experience at Flexport.

Olga Stern, co-founder of Tangy Market, shares the creation story of their mobile app that democratizes music rights by enabling anyone to invest in them.

Arjun Bhatnagar, founder of Cloaked, shares his journey from childhood coder and entrepreneur to building a privacy platform that masks users' true credentials across online platforms.

Mathias Nestler, co-founder of AccessOwl, discusses his journey from insure-tech and fintech startups to building an access management tool born from his own frustration with tracking and documenting user access.

While running his prior startup, John wanted to figure out a way to create a system that allowed him to get reuse out of the work he was building. What he ended up building was an ecosystem, for solution builders and developers, to merge the worlds of low code and no code.

Code Story podcast features Dan Lorenc, co-founder of Chainguard, discussing how the Solarwinds attack and the Biden Administration's executive order inspired him to leave Google and build a startup focused on securing the software supply chain.

Code Story podcast episode S7E11 features a return interview with Arjun Narayan, Co-founder and CEO of Materialize, discussing major updates to the company and its fast, distributed SQL database built on streaming internals.

Code Story podcast features Maria Irizarry, Technical Lead Manager at Courier, in a bonus episode about the new notification stack for developers.

Waseem and his co-founders have done many startups together. They built a service to streamline back office processes, which were often a challenge in their previous ventures.

Ethan Song, co-founder of Frank & Oak, discusses his journey into web3 and the creation of RareCircles, a tool enabling companies to deepen customer engagement and revenue.

In this episode, Aaron Upright discusses the challenges faced by developers and product managers when using separate tools like Github and project software. He shares insights on how Zenhub was created to bridge this gap and align tools with team ethos.

Squarekicker is a startup created by Nick Ippolito and Rowan Findlay that enables custom Squarespace site tooling, born from Rowan's tinkering during days off.

Code Story podcast features Juan Soberanis, CTO and founder of Beacon, discussing his journey from programming on a Commodore 128 in 1986 to building his current startup through mobile development contracting.

Benjamin Wilms, founder of Steadybit, shares his journey from developer to chaos engineering entrepreneur on the Code Story podcast (Season 7, Episode 11).

Reprise co-founders Evan Powell and Sam Clemens share their creation story on the Code Story podcast, detailing how recurring problems with sales demos at prior companies inspired them to build a better solution.

Code Story podcast episode S7E15 features Jaxon Repp, Head of Product at HarperDB, discussing the product's evolution, use cases, edge computing focus, and the upcoming 4.0 release.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Drew Youngwerth, Software Manager at Courier, discussing "The New Notification Stack for Developers" as part of a sponsored series.

Jake Vacovec, founder of Flycode, shares his journey from sales to product development and how he created a no-code editing solution to address the scarcity of engineering resources amid high demand for product experimentation.

Chelsey Roney, co-founder of Proxi, shares the creation story of her mappable address platform, which originated from organizing Seattle trick-or-treating during COVID and evolved into a full startup after gaining media attention.

Code Story podcast announces the Season 7 trailer, highlighting the show's formula for surfacing human stories from builders and founders like Ian Small of Evernote and Waseem Daher of Pilot.

Rob Moore, previously featured on Code Story for his work on Floom, shares the creation story of ChurnKey—a tool born from solving his own churn problem at his prior product Waave.

Kateryna Sytnyk, originally from Ukraine, shares her entrepreneurial journey on the Code Story podcast, from building a geospatial revenue optimization startup to founding Fract and CTO Doctor to help women founders build technical solutions.

Hadi Radwan, founder of Asteya, shares the creation story of his disability insurance startup on the Code Story podcast, addressing the gap where 50% of people living paycheck to paycheck don't know disability insurance exists.

Luca Rossi, an Italy-based engineering leader and founder, shares the creation story of his newsletter Refactoring on the Code Story podcast.

Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, discusses his journey from VP of Engineering at GitHub to founding PlanetScale, leveraging Vitess—the backend technology behind YouTube—to build a scalable database platform.

Code Story podcast episode 19 features Ken Babcock, co-founder of Tango, discussing how he and his co-founders met at Harvard Business School in 2019 and built a tool to replicate high-performer processes.

Ashley Cline, founder of Ice Cream Social, shares her journey from small-town Ohio to California's tech scene, where she created a platform to gamify event registration and incentivize social sharing.

GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams.

Mark Stouse, former CCO and CMO at companies like Honeywell Aerospace, discusses the creation story of Proof Analytics on the Code Story podcast, driven by his frustration with the lack of marketing attribution to the bottom line.

Code Story podcast episode featuring Marie Ng, founder of Llama Life, who taught herself to code and turned a to-do list project into a business after receiving positive feedback on Twitter.

Code Story podcast episode 15 features Jeff Grass discussing the creation story of Hungry, a national platform for top chef-made food production and delivery that evolved from a tech-enabled office and event catering service.

Mike's career has tracked alongside the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem.

Max Lukichev, PhD in computer science and founder of Telmai, shares his journey from decades in the enterprise data space to building a data anomaly detection solution after experiencing the failures of traditional rules and static dashboard-based approaches.

Vicki Duben, co-founder of Viewst, shares her journey from physics and professional tennis to hedge fund trading and eventually entrepreneurship, explaining how capacity constraints in creating rich media ads led to the creation of Viewst.

Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy.

Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that.

Sean Stavropoulos, co-founder and CTO of Boulevard, shares the creation story of building a modern appointment scheduling platform designed specifically for salons, spas, and self-care businesses.

Matt and his team started to explore the things they couldn't do with their current tooling, and landed on the power of WebAssembly. In attempting to speed up the startup time of servers and containers, along side the rising popularity of server-less, he and his team stumbled onto something, during a post offsite dinner.

Code Story podcast episode 9 features William Falcon, founder of Lightning AI, discussing his unconventional path from Navy Seal training to teaching himself to code and building an open-source deep learning toolset.

Dan Draper, founder and CEO of CipherStash, shares the origin story of his encrypted queryable database venture, inspired by his experience as CTO at Expert360 where he struggled to satisfy clients' data protection demands.

Jeremy Wood discusses his journey in the craft builder community and his interest in eCommerce. He highlights the evolution of Shopify as a marketplace and the need for store owners to sell and offload their businesses.

In his previous role at Logz.io, Roi and his team spent large sums of money for cloud providers and services. The finance team quickly got wind of these costs, and started asking questions, appropriately. Roi found out that he didn't have answers to the questions, and there wasn't tooling out there that helped him.

Satish Jayanthi, founder of Coalesce, shares his journey from India to the US and how his experience building data warehouses led him to create a modern, automation-driven solution for consolidating data sources.

Andrew Zhou, co-founder of Kona, shares his journey from dropping out of college to building a mental health check-in tool, driven by a passion for authenticity rooted in his Bay Area upbringing.

When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience.

Rene Morkos, founder of ALICE Technologies, shares his origin story on the Code Story podcast, describing how his experience repairing a runway in Afghanistan inspired him to create an algorithm that optimizes construction planning.

Tapan Pattnayak shares his creation story at Addverb, a robotics and warehouse automation company, discussing his passion for technology, inspiring young engineers, and his journey from India to building an impactful company.

GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams.

Justin Clegg, founder of Allset, shares his origin story on the Code Story podcast, describing how a frustrating payment experience with a handyman inspired him to build a payment solution for tradesmen.

Nat Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Trustworthy, discusses how his experience storing legal documents at Microsoft led him to create a platform helping families organize and centralize their important information.

Ian Small, CEO of Evernote, discusses joining the company in 2018 to tackle massive technical debt that was blocking innovation and growth.

In this episode, Nathan Yap discusses his journey from importing coconut water to founding SupportZebra, a customer support team. He shares insights on building effective support teams and the evolution of his business ventures.

Code Story podcast episode 6 features Jon Darbyshire discussing the creation of SmartSuite, an all-in-one operating system for business tools, inspired by his observations that startup founders spent excessive time on tooling.

Shaheeb Roshan, co-founder and CTO of ThreeFlow, shares the creation story of the company built to modernize the employee benefits insurance space by replacing manual processes with modern tooling.

Therma co-founders Manik Suri and Lucas Tepman discuss their journey from diverse careers to building an automated temperature monitoring solution for the food industry, replacing manual clipboard-based processes with sensor-driven automation.

Alex Embiricos, founder of Remotion, shares his journey from aerospace to software and how he and his co-founder built a video chat tool focused on collaborative problem-solving rather than presentations.

Roya Kachooei, founder of Walletifai, shares her journey from immigrating to Canada to building a personal finance app after struggling to save for a house downpayment.

Raj Bains, co-founder and CEO of Prophecy, shares his journey from growing up in India to building a modern data engineering platform designed to replace outdated, complicated tools.

Derek Osgood, founder of Ignition, shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, describing how hundreds of chaotic product launches at companies like Playstation, Rippling, and BBVA inspired him to build a better go-to-market tool.

Shawn tells the story of how her current venture started out as a dating service, but pivoted when the pandemic hit to positive events for remote teams. Being on one of those remote teams and consuming the events, she fell in love with the idea and joined the team, to build and deliver shared experiences with powerful insights.

Gabriel Isserlis, founder of Tutti, shares his journey from growing up in a musical family in London to studying film in New York and ultimately pivoting to tech to build automation tools for the creative industry.

Max Koziolek, co-founder of Spectrm, shares his journey from a non-tech background outside Berlin to building a conversational marketing platform that originated from distributing valuable content through WhatsApp.

In a previous role, Ruben was made aware that although financial institutions and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app, he and his team ended up pivoting to creating the tooling and infrastructure needed to interact with financial data sets.

While progressing through her career, Stephany had an idea around enhanced supplier data that she couldn’t shake. After a small maternal break to have her 3rd daughter, she stepped back into the startup ring to build a platform around dynamic supplier data.

At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build.

Derek Osgood, founder of Ignition, shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, describing how hundreds of chaotic product launches at companies like Playstation, Rippling, and BBVA inspired him to build a better go-to-market tool.

Code Story podcast features a "Growth Mode: ON" bonus episode with Arun Sivashankaran, Founder of FunnelEnvy, sponsored by GrowthMatch.

Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better.

Code Story podcast Season 7 Episode 07 features Andrey Pokhilko, Open Source Dev Leader at Komodor, discussing the company's latest initiatives including Helm tooling and Kubernetes troubleshooting advances.

Code Story podcast kicks off a special series called "The New Notification Stack for Developers," featuring Mike Miller, Lead Mobile SDK Engineer at Courier, and sponsored by Courier.

Code Story podcast episode 13 features Krish Ramineni discussing the creation story of Fireflies.ai, a tool born from his desire to remember every conversation and unlock hidden metrics behind meetings.

Andrew Hoag, founder of Teampay, shares the creation story of his company on the Code Story podcast, discussing how outdated tooling in software procurement inspired him to build a modern solution.

Ruslan K, a software developer with over 10 years of experience, discusses the creation of Filmustage, a venture aimed at disrupting the film-making process through AI and automation.

Kyle knew that storing data on the blockchain was expensive. At the same time, it wasn't fast, nor was it stable. He and his co-founder set out to build an unbelievably fast content delivery network, easily accessible across the world.

Arjun Bhatnagar, founder of Cloaked, shares his journey from childhood coder and musician to building a privacy platform that masks users' true credentials across online platforms.

GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams.

Josh Lewis, founder of Sensible, shares his journey from neighborhood tech support and philosophy studies to building a PDF data extraction tool after encountering recurring data entry problems at his previous company.

Michael Zuercher, founder of Prismatic, shares his journey from building productized integrations at his prior company to creating Prismatic after selling that company in 2018.

Code Story podcast episode 7 features Alexandre Omeyer, co-founder of Stepsize, discussing his journey from show jumping in Paris to building software solutions in the UK with his brother.

Alex Svinov, founder of Insquad, shares his journey of creating a platform to solve the challenge of finding qualified developers for startups competing against larger companies.

Code Story podcast episode 22 features Paul McCarthy, founder of SnapFix, discussing how he built a photo-based platform to simplify hotel, facilities, and team management after growing frustrated with archaic manual maintenance processes.

Code Story podcast features Seth Carney (CTO at Courier) and Ben Link (DevRel at Twilio Segment) discussing the new notification stack for developers as part of a sponsored series.

Tom Medema, a Dutch founder and former CTO, discusses the creation story of Bubbles, an async video collaboration tool born from the pain of ineffective remote hiring tools.

Joe De Pinto, a former minor league baseball player for the White Sox, co-founded Haste Arcade in January 2021 to demonstrate the utility of BSV blockchain after previously building Barpay.