S10 E23: Anthony Eden, DNSimple

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Anthony Eden is a gray beard in terms of internet time, being around when Netscape was released. He was studying music at the University of Miami, and decided to build a website to show off his music and other peoples work - and was hooked. Outside of tech, he grew up surfing, living in Hawaii, France and now Florida. He enjoys writing software for fun - when he has time - and playing board games with this kids - when they are around.

In the past, Anthony was coming off of a failed startup. At the time, he was using a different vendor to manage domains and DNS - which he did not like at all. He decided to go forward and build a better solution, and one that is - you guessed it - simple.

This is the creation story of DNSimple.

S10 E23: Anthony Eden, DNSimple

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S11 E1: Rob Woollen, Sigma Computing 21:20

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Rob Woollen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up with a Father in IT and management, and his Mother as an English teacher. He has been programming for a long time, since the early days on his Apple 2E (yes, the green screen one). Outside of tech, he is married with 3 boys, all teenagers. He also has a 1 year old golden retriever, and spends a lot of time ensuring he lives his best life. In addition to this, he and his wife enjoy hiking around the Marin area, as they have the best hiking trials. Rob spent many years at Salesforce, and it struck him that many of the company operations were still done on spreadsheets. When he left the company, he started exploring how to create something to support large scale data sets, within the familiar UI of spreadsheets. This is the creation story of Sigma Computing . Sponsors Paddle.com Sema Software PropelAuth Links https://www.sigmacomputing.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwoollen/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Season Favorite - Matt Van Itallie, Sema 25:53

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Matt Van Itallie is the son of a math teacher and a coder - so this explains why he now uses code as data. He is a proud Boy Scout, making it of course to Eagle Scout and beyond. After being a management consultant, he found his way to ed tech, and fell in love with improving code. Outside of technology, he is married with 3 amazing kids. He likes to run, play ultimate frisbee, and has a wicked cool collection of minor league baseball hats. Sitting a room with the head of Sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself? This is the creation story of Sema . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www.semasoftware.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvi/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Season Favorite - Kevin Hurley, Lightspark 23:34

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Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings at home. He went to school for electrical engineering, and funny enough, interviewed for a computer science job by accident, effectively stumbling into the trade. Outside of tech, he spends his free time with his fiancé, planning for the wedding, and visiting Manhattan beach for a good walk . Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast. This is the creation story of Lightspark . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www.lightspark.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-p-hurley/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Season Favorite - Anurag Goel, Render 22:34

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Anurag Goel grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at Stripe, as the 8th employee, before eventually moving on and launching his current venture. Outside of tech, he is married, living in San Francisco. He likes to read science fiction, especially prior to bedtime. He also enjoys eating Thai food on the regular, though he mentioned he could eat pizza every day. Post leaving Stripe, Anurag decided to work on an ambitious problem, and he started doing this by building a bunch of stuff in many different domains. After noticing a common problem in building out Kubernetes, he decided to start a new business to abstract these problems, and allow builders to focus on the differentiating factors to their solutions. This is the creation story of Render . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://render.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuragoel/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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S10 Bonus: Erik Braund, Katmai Tech 32:56

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Erik Braund was born and raised in Alaska. Growing up, he played competitive hockey and built computers for his Dad's company and eventually others. He grew up with a gameboy, an electric guitar, and a love for Nirvana. He eventually upgraded his setup to a computer - which led him to setup a recording studio. He was internet obsessed from a young age, partially because it was the door to a bigger world outside of Alaska. He played in bands, started a recording studio, which eventually turned into a production company in NYC and LA, delivering AV projects for numerous clients. Erik was running his production company when COVID hit. Given people weren't doing in person projects, he started consulting and opening up his mind on how to do these types of projects remotely. He started to see a new problem, where video conferencing was not solving high connection, collaborative work. This is the creation story of Katmai . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://katmaitech.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-braund/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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S10 E30: Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty, Uniqode 33:50

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Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty lives in Bangalore with his family. Early on, he joined startups where his friends worked, in order to get to know the landscape of how they functioned. He fell in love with the tech, team and early innings of building a business - so much so, that he eventually started his own. He has been an entrepreneur for 15 years - or in the woods, as he says. But outside of tech, he's married with 2 girls. He loves spending time with his family, playing tennis, being outdoors or skiing. Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes. This is the creation story of Uniqode . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www.uniqode.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravipratapm/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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S10 Bonus: Shai Horovitz, Jit.io 25:03

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Shai Horovitz grew up on a farm in Israel, 1.5 hours north of Tel Aviv. He was drafted into the army, in a unit that focused on technology - and in 2013, he moved to the states and joined a startup. And - he loved it, eventually leading the team in building the business in Japan. Outside of tech, he loves to travel with his family and 3 kids. He is also a self proclaimed foodie, and enjoys sports - spending 11 years in Boston rooting on the Celtics. The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge. This is the creation story of Jit . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www.jit.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/shai-horovitz-855a3a49/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Are You Ready For the GenAI Data Frontier? 28:19

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The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS Method Today, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity . Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics. Episode Title: Are You Ready For the GenAI Data Frontier? Exploring GenAI Security In this episode, we talk with Anthony Cammarano , CTO & VP of Engineering, as he breaks down and simplifies GenAI for companies struggling in the new frontier. There is a flood of unstructured data pouring into workflows - thanks to GenAI - and traditional security methods aren't prepared to cover this expanded attack surface. The good news is that companies already have what they need to fix this, and it's a simple mindset shift. Questions What are some of the most common misconceptions or trends about GenAI, as it relates to data protection and privacy, that organizations face today? What are the primary business challenges facing the adoption of GenAI today? How do modern GenAI systems create data security vulnerabilities and what are the potential risks? What is crucial in the implementation of GenAI-security solutions, and how can it accelerate AI adoption? Can you provide examples of how attackers are targeting data during its use and the importance of securing this data? What are some best practices for robust data governance and how can organizations stay ahead in the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape? Links https://www.protegrity.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ac56/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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S10 E29: Lucas Lovell, Paddle 26:57

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S10 Bonus: David Young, Federated Computer 27:49

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S10 E28: Kavitta Ghai, Nectir 38:50

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Kavitta Ghai realized at an early age that she thought different than everyone else. She grew up neurodivergent, with autism and ADHD but was a lucky kid, having parents that helped her see the silver lining in her learning challenges, making sure she had outlets in extracurricular activities. She is a creative person always looking to build something that doesn't exist. In her off time, she enjoys turning off all the tech, learning a new language, and reconnecting with the real, analog world. Kavitta and her co-founder found themselves frustrated with the classroom in college. For paying such an exorbitant amount of money, they were confused why the educational classroom was so ineffective. It came to a head - to the point, where Kavitta was going to change it or drop out of school. This is the creation story of Nectir . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www.nectir.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavittaghai/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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S10 Bonus: Darko Fabijan, Semaphore 25:20

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Darko Fabijan is originally from Serbia, and splits his time between their and the US. He got is first computer in 1994, and eventually started tinkering and playing with Linus. He went to university in 2003, and then started a company with a college friend, which was a rails consultancy. Outside of tech, he is married, with 2 kids - ages 3 and 9. The older one is into athletics, and the younger one is more into art. He enjoys spending time in nature with his family, and got into trail running a few years ago - recently running a 64km trail. He enjoys business books because he likes to see how other people "did it", when it comes to their successes and failures. In 2011, Darko was running his consulting shop with 7 or 8 people. As they were developing applications, they couldn't find anything for continuous integration where you just "signed up" and it worked. That was enough for them to get out there and build it on their own. This is the creation story of Semaphore . Sponsors Mailtrap Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://semaphore.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/darkofa bijan/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Fortifying Your Data Defenses 20:45

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S10 E27: Gino Ferrand, Tecla.io 25:00

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