Code Story

https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-simmi-singh-hook-music/

While Simmi was at Spotify, a prior colleague of hers approached her about a product he was building. When she heard the details of what was being built, she felt that it was the culmination of all of our professional experiences and she had to jump on board.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nikita-shamgunov-neon/

Nikita completed his “tour of duty” at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture – and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways.

https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-dubai-mohammad-albalooshi-difc-innovation-hub/

For today’s episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai’s innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-cory-odaniel-massdriver/

Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra – and fuel developers engineering process.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-torrey-leonard-thoughtly/

Last summer, Torrey built a platform that allowed you to build out voice agents. After doing so, he realized that there wasn’t a good way to do this through a UI, and he realized this was an obvious thing that needed to be built. He decided to leave his prior company to pursue this vision – which headed towards the Zapier for call center agents.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-joni-klippert-stackhawk/

Joni had been building software for engineers for a long time, as a product person. At one point, she started researching the last mile of DevOps, and was surprised how far this particular group was behind, in regard to tooling. She dreamt of automating the pen-testing remediation process, and stumbled upon an opportunity as it relates to DAST – dynamic application security testing.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-mihri-minaz-beams/

In the past, Mihri’s experienced problems with her team, as far as measuring and optimizing productivity. This was related to the different number of tools used, along with the lack of a unified view of these tools. She and her co-founder clicked on this problem, and decided to build a solution.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-wes-tatters-rapyd-cloud/

Ten years ago, Wes started in on the WordPress space. He immediately saw that most experiences utilized shared hosting, and he also had customers wanting to build community environments. The problem was most hosting providers didn’t perform well enough to support the components needed for these types of sites.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-thomas-hansen-amplitude/

Thomas was introduced to his current venture through an early investor in the company. He met with the co-founder, Spenser, and sparks flew. There was a great fit and chemistry between them, and he was invited on board to push the company forward to new heights.