Tameem Hourani

What really drove us to get going? What really pushed me to leave a safe job, a great job, actually, that I was learning a ton at? Doing a lot of talks at conferences, the problem we were solving at Wayfair was around deploying 600 or 700 times the data production. And if you think about all the public company requirements that wrap around that, it's pretty crazy, right?

What really drove us to get going? What really pushed me to leave a safe job, a great job, actually, that I was learning a ton at? Doing a lot of talks at conferences, the problem we were solving at Wayfair was around deploying 600 or 700 times the data production. And if you think about all the public company requirements that wrap around that, it's pretty crazy, right?

You've got to do a ton of audits, you've got to do a ton of paper trails, you've got to make sure your SOX compliance and your PCI compliance, there's all these requirements that are enforced just by proxy being a public company and then by proxy being over a billion dollars.

You've got to do a ton of audits, you've got to do a ton of paper trails, you've got to make sure your SOX compliance and your PCI compliance, there's all these requirements that are enforced just by proxy being a public company and then by proxy being over a billion dollars.

You've got to do a ton of audits, you've got to do a ton of paper trails, you've got to make sure your SOX compliance and your PCI compliance, there's all these requirements that are enforced just by proxy being a public company and then by proxy being over a billion dollars.

We solved those problems using platforms like ServiceNow and some custom code, but when I went to talk about them at conferences, I very quickly realized A lot of public companies, especially in the banking sector, have the same exact problems. They're not able to do true CICD.

We solved those problems using platforms like ServiceNow and some custom code, but when I went to talk about them at conferences, I very quickly realized A lot of public companies, especially in the banking sector, have the same exact problems. They're not able to do true CICD.

We solved those problems using platforms like ServiceNow and some custom code, but when I went to talk about them at conferences, I very quickly realized A lot of public companies, especially in the banking sector, have the same exact problems. They're not able to do true CICD.

They're not able to adopt true DevOps methodologies or practices or whatever buzzword you might use, just because of all the regulatory boundaries they've been applied to. So the first thing that really worked for us was helping those customers accelerate their audit requirements. We were using ServiceNow to automate any of their QA testing, validation, cross-checking, 4Is in the finance industry.

They're not able to adopt true DevOps methodologies or practices or whatever buzzword you might use, just because of all the regulatory boundaries they've been applied to. So the first thing that really worked for us was helping those customers accelerate their audit requirements. We were using ServiceNow to automate any of their QA testing, validation, cross-checking, 4Is in the finance industry.

They're not able to adopt true DevOps methodologies or practices or whatever buzzword you might use, just because of all the regulatory boundaries they've been applied to. So the first thing that really worked for us was helping those customers accelerate their audit requirements. We were using ServiceNow to automate any of their QA testing, validation, cross-checking, 4Is in the finance industry.

You can almost call it a product, but that solution slowly became applicable to the pharma and insurance industries because they're also super highly regulated. So you start to see this pattern of we can help highly regulated customers deploy code faster using ServiceNow. ServiceNow just becomes an enabler. But the solution is that, right? And then you can almost argue that's the value.

You can almost call it a product, but that solution slowly became applicable to the pharma and insurance industries because they're also super highly regulated. So you start to see this pattern of we can help highly regulated customers deploy code faster using ServiceNow. ServiceNow just becomes an enabler. But the solution is that, right? And then you can almost argue that's the value.

You can almost call it a product, but that solution slowly became applicable to the pharma and insurance industries because they're also super highly regulated. So you start to see this pattern of we can help highly regulated customers deploy code faster using ServiceNow. ServiceNow just becomes an enabler. But the solution is that, right? And then you can almost argue that's the value.

I hesitate to say consulting because consultants, a lot of times, it's like, hey, I need you to do these 17 things. I know you're done. We're the exact opposite of that. We're coming with a solution. We're coming with what we believe adds value. And we're helping the customer accomplish that.

I hesitate to say consulting because consultants, a lot of times, it's like, hey, I need you to do these 17 things. I know you're done. We're the exact opposite of that. We're coming with a solution. We're coming with what we believe adds value. And we're helping the customer accomplish that.

I hesitate to say consulting because consultants, a lot of times, it's like, hey, I need you to do these 17 things. I know you're done. We're the exact opposite of that. We're coming with a solution. We're coming with what we believe adds value. And we're helping the customer accomplish that.

And that, I would argue, was our first MVP or our first iteration of the value we're providing to customers. And from there, it just started to snowball.

And that, I would argue, was our first MVP or our first iteration of the value we're providing to customers. And from there, it just started to snowball.

And that, I would argue, was our first MVP or our first iteration of the value we're providing to customers. And from there, it just started to snowball.