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S7 E30: The Architecture of Infinite Scale: Harnessing Vitess and Database Sharding with Sam Lambert of PlanetScale Apr 04, 2023

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Sam Lambert is originally from the UK, and has lived quite a few places during his life. He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco. He finds software to be a creative, playful process, and sees people trying to build that away from the process. He feels very lucky to building something that provides fruit and solves problems. Outside of tech, he is married with a 4 year old, and is into cooking and art. I asked about NFT's, given his tech background, but he's not super into that form of art at this time.

Sam spent time working at Github as a VP of Engineering, specifically focusing on infrastructure. He and his team came across Vitess, the backend that ran YouTube, and he took this amazing framework into his current venture to remix their approach of design and scalability.

This is the creation story of PlanetScale.

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S7 Bonus: The Shopify for Fintech: Engineering Low-Code Financial Rails with Ruben Izmailyan of Quiltt Mar 30, 2023

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Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually attending school at Brown in Rhode Island. He's an avid BBQer, which fits perfectly now that he is living in Texas with his young family. However, he let me know that he even was into this style of cooking when he was living in Brooklyn - against the wishes of his landlord at the time.

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. And this abstraction started to gain traction.

This is the creation story of Quiltt.

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Drew Youngwerth Mar 29, 2023

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Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Courier. As a reminder, Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com

Guest: Drew Youngwerth, Software Manager at Courier

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S7 E29: Engineering Virtual Power Plants: Scaling AI-Driven Supply Chain Cooling with Manik Suri & Lucas Tepman of Therma Mar 28, 2023

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Manik Suri calls himself a jack of all trades. He went about his career doing lots of different things, and figured out most of what he didn't want to do. He started out an academic, then went into private equity investment, then did a spin in Government, then went to law school - and finally, landed in the tech world. He grew up in Fresno, and ended up back in Cali, specifically in the Bay Area. Outside of tech, he is married with a young family, and a dog named Espresso.

Lucas Tepman was originally born in Argentina, and came to the US around 5 years ago. He started out his career in public affairs and politics, working at an NGO and promoting the acceleration of sustainability. He came to study at UC Berkeley as a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, and eventually he explored solutions via high impact venture capital. This is where he met Manik.

Manik and Lucas stumbled into the problem they are solving today. A decade ago, Manik wanted to solve big public problems. He saw opportunities in the food industry, and created a software solution to replace the clipboard. What they figured out was most people were checking temperatures, and did need a digital clipboard - the needed the process automated.

This is the creation story of Therma.

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S7 Bonus: Architecting the Dark Warehouse: Scaling Autonomous Mobile Robots with Tapan Pattnayak of Addverb Mar 23, 2023

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Tapan Pattnayak life revolves around technology - his friends, professional colleagues, etc. and even his wife is an engineer, who he met at a company he was working at. He's passionate about making kids fall in love with science, and inspire a generation of young people to roll up their sleeves and dig into hardware. He believes that engineering is taught from the passion of other engineers. Outside of tech, he used to play sports, specifically cricket. When time limited the play of cricket, he started reading philosophy and history, with the goal of predicting what is happening in macro or societal trends.

While growing up in India, Tapan was contacted by his good friend in the states to join his company. At first he was hesitant, but he came to a point in his life where he felt he needed to do something different - something that was high energy, open, and impactful to the rest of the world.

This is Tapan's creation story at Addverb.

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Maria Irizarry Mar 22, 2023

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Guest: Maria Irizarry, Technical Lead Manager at Courier

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S7 E28: The Elixir Stack Behind a $5B Payments Engine: Scaling Vertical SaaS with Sean Stavropoulos of Boulevard Mar 21, 2023

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Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California, His journey to technology started in 7th grade, when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio, breaking his friends computers along the way. He studied aerospace engineering in college, but enjoyed tech and pogromming way more and joined the LA development community 12 years ago. Outside of tech, he plays beach volleyball, hikes, and enjoys little vacations here and there.

Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution, specifically for salons and spas - so called self care businesses, traditionally underserved. They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a 6 person salon.

This is the creation story of Boulevard.

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S7 Bonus: Cutting Customer Acquisition Costs: Turning Ticketing Data into Viral Referrals with Ashley Cline of Ice Cream Social Mar 16, 2023

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Ashley Cline was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. Her big dreams and aspirations led her to move to California and start her career in tech and marketing. She has always really enjoyed meeting people through direct networking. She has 2 kids, and she loves to get outside and enjoy all that sunny Cali offers.

Through her other company, Ticketsocket, Ashley began interviewing her clients about how she could help them get more money out of their marketing budgets. She began to pursue trying to figure out how to gamify registration, to incentivize people to want to bring their friends and family to events.

This is the creation story of Ice Cream Social.

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Shreya Gupta Mar 15, 2023

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Guest: Shreya Gupta, Developer Advocate at Courier

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S7 E27: Automating the SOC2 Compliance Trap: Slack-First Identity Governance with Mathias Nestler of AccessOwl Mar 14, 2023

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Mathias Nestler has co-founded several startups in his career, in the insure-tech and fintech spaces. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing and diving. He claims that the calmness under the water is the best way to unwind from tech life. His favorite place he's dived before was in Thailand, where he observed his first seahorse. He often takes the train to Switzerland to see his significant other, and they like to cook at home together.

Coming from a regulated industry, Mathias wanted to build something to help him keep track and document who has access to what, which is a huge time sync and security risk. One day, he had one of his fellow CTO's ask him if he knew of a tool that could do this... and he started thinking, "Maybe I should just build it?".

This is the creation story of AccessOwl.

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