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S8 E26: The Intranet Evolution: Engineering Block-Based No-Code Workflows and Scaling to 4,000+ Enterprise Clients with Josh Purvis, Co-Founder & CPO of Assembly Oct 10, 2023

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Josh Purvis grew up in Missouri, on a lake in the Ozarks. He spent most of his time outdoors, and became a professional wakeboarder. Eventually, an injury took him out of the circuit and he went to entertainment school. During his time there, he and his roommate built a website - and he has been into tech ever since. Outside of tech, he reads a ton, owning about 400-500 books, and enjoys street tacos, wings, and a good plate of pasta.

In the past, Josh and his current co-founder started to discuss employment engagement. They also noticed that sharing information across a large company was, well - inefficient, with many points of failure. On the side, they started building something that would improve both of these areas together.

This is the creation story of Assembly.

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S8 Bonus: Clicks, Not Code: Architecting Automated Reference Data Versioning and Low-Code Release Management at Scale with Max Rudman of Prodly Oct 05, 2023

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Max Rudman grew up in Soviet, Moscow - then moved from Russia when he was 16 years old. He spent his early years programming and exploring engineering, and it just continued on as he got older. He got the entrepreneurial bug in early 2000's when he was hired at a marketplace .COM startup. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 kids. He loves to travel and considers himself a foodie, stating that his favorite restaurants were in the wine country and in Spain.

Within his last startup, Max discovered that deploying configuration rules on Salesforce was clunky and took a long time to do so, even for a seasoned engineer. Eventually, he decided to build a tool to focus on this process alone.

This is the creation story of Prodly.

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S8 Bonus: Democratizing Human Capital Analytics and Engineering Multi-Tenant Transcript Ingestion with Kaj Pedersen, Co-Founder & CTO of AstrumU Oct 04, 2023

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Kaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. He has had tons of exposure to cultures and countries, which he is fond of. Outside of tech, he married with a family, and loves climbing, being a proclaimed mountaineer. When he isn't climbing he likes to read a broad array of books, and scuba dive - of which, he mentioned Fiji was the coolest dive.

In 2017, the founders of AstrumU kicked off the idea to build a company focused on creating equity to the value of education for everyone, by tracking hard and soft skills at the individual level. Though he couldn't join the company at that time, Kaj eventually joined in 2019 to take the initial idea to 1.0 conception.

This is the creation story of AstrumU.

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S8 E25: The Synthetic Data Blueprint: Bypassing Production Privacy Risks and Scaling Data Anonymization with Andrew Colombi, Co-Founder & CTO of Tonic.ai Oct 03, 2023

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Andrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to load it. After digging into the internal configuration to delay the load of peripherals, he was hooked on computers and eventually, coding. Outside of tech, he is picking back up learning piano, and really enjoys biking. He mentioned he just got a new gravel bike, which is a street bike with a front suspension.

In the past, Andrew frequently worked with data that was private, with other users not having access. So, he had to create fake data, for multiple different projects. When he tried to do this, it took him much longer than anticipated, and it was incredibly valuable for multiple uses (stress testing and demos to name a few). This was key to eventually building a real tool for this, and starting a new adventure.

This is the creation story of Tonic.

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Dev Interrupted: Assembling & Nurturing Engineering Teams Sep 29, 2023

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Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned a ton from. Check out the post below, and subscribe to Dev Interrupted!

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https://linearb.io/dev-interrupted/podcast/career-journey-3-assembling-and-nurturing-engineering-teams

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S8 Bonus: The Code Dependency Revolution: Solving Open-Source Burnout and Engineering the teaRank Protocol with Max Howell, Creator of Homebrew & Founder of Tea Sep 28, 2023

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Max Howell did well in school, and was presented with the problem that - he didn't know what to do with himself. At that time, software wasn't cool, so he studied chemistry and started out a job in that industry. After he mastered his work environment within 3 months, he was disenchanted with the career path, and decided to stop going to work. Post installing Linux on his home computer, he started coding - and fell in love with it. Outside of tech, he is married with a young son. He enjoys a good beer, cooking a steak, and seeing how new everything is interpreted through his son's eyes.

Max is the creator of Homebrew, the widely used package manager which is probably installed on your computer right now. After the success of the tool, he wanted to figure out a way to continue to bring value to open source, and power digital money in the web3 space.

This is the creation story of Tea.

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S8 Bonus: The Real-Time Metadata Graph: Moving Beyond Passive Data Catalogs to Automated, Event-Driven Governance with Shirshanka Das, Co-Founder of DataHub & CEO of Acryl Data Sep 27, 2023

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Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, eventually working at PayPal and Yahoo on massive architectural systems. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 kids, he's an accomplished Indian vocalist, and has a passion for swimming, which he states is his therapy.

After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version.

This is the creation story of Acryl Data.

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S8 E24: Bypassing the Wrapper Trap to Engineer Model-Agnostic Enterprise RAG and Compliance Guardrails with Jon Ricketts, Co-Founder & CEO of Writerly Sep 26, 2023

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Jon Ricketts lives in Knoxville, TN with his wife and kids. He notes that he has had an unconventional route to being a tech startup founder. He has an MBA and JD, but knew during law school he didn't want to practice. Throughout his career, he has continually fallen in love with building. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time on the beach, staying physically fit, golfing, and working on his private pilots license.

Jon observed the maturation of AI, in the creation of tooling like ChatGPT and generative AI. He envisioned building an application to extend the progression of natural language processing to enable work productivity.

This is the creation story of Writerly.

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S8 Bonus: Engineering Conversational Natural Language Engines for Elasticsearch and Overthrowing the SQL Middleman with Tim Tutt, Co-Founder & CEO of ClearQuery Sep 21, 2023

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Tim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different schools in the 1st grade. He learned how to make friends and fit in quickly. Outside of tech, he loves the marvel cinematic universe, from which he states that Tony Spark is his spirit animal. He also loves to play poker, which he got into during college. He actually got to play in a smaller event within the World Series of poker this past year.

In the past, Tim played the role of the middle man between the data and those who needed answers from the data. Like a good engineer, he always automated the repeat things he was asked to do. He asked his co-founder one day... wouldn't it be nice if we could just get out of the way?

This is the creation story of ClearQuery.

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S8 Bonus: The Multi-Vendor Telemetry Playbook: Scaling Collaboration Intelligence and the Road to an HP Acquisition with Alfredo Ramirez, Co-Founder & CEO of Vyopta Sep 20, 2023

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Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, his father bought him an Apple 2 computer, which started him on his software development journey. Outside of tech, he is married with kids, and loves spending time outdoors with them - hiking, water sports, snow skiing and shooting trap. All of these things allow him to relax, recharge and clear his head.

Fifteen years ago, Alfredo and his co-founders started their current venture during the 2008 financial crisis. After relying on the services side of their business, they headed towards building a single platform around digital collaboration, one that is reliable, a better user experience, and the analytics to go with it.

This is the creation story of Vyopta.

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