Sagar Batchu was born in Sacramento, but moved to Bangalore after a decade. He has always been interested in how things work, and majored in Physic at his University. Towards the end of his studies, he crammed in a ton of CS classes and fell in love with the craft. He's worked on firmware, enterprise software, and eventually went to LiveRamp, building new experiences for them. Outside of tech, he loves pickleball, enjoys growing coffee and loves readying about historical events.In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company.This is the creation story of Speakeasy.SponsorsSpeakeasyLinkshttps://www.speakeasy.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagar-batchu-981b3738/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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A lot of our customers were spending a lot of time, a lot of support time onboarding users onto the API. Like the table stakes for what they were providing the users was just the classic three pane documentation site. Now this is the classic left-hand view, middle view, right-hand view you've probably seen for a lot of API docs. And that just wasn't enough.
That, to me, felt like the lazy thing to do, throw up a Swagger doc site and send it to your customers. We actually started to innovate around a set of React and developer portal components that would allow you to stitch together a really interactive and guided onboarding experience. My name's Sagar. I'm CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy.
This is CodeStory. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Six months moonlighting. Who share what it takes to change an industry. Who built the teams that have their back. Keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as a group. Total waste of time. The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve.
Took it off the shelf and dusted it off and tried to begin. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it. It's not just about technology. All this and more on CodeStory. I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today, how Sagar Bhatiu is making crafting API experiences a cinch, where every API is up-to-date, making integration easy. This episode is sponsored by Speakeasy.
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He has always been interested in how things work and majored in physics at his university. Towards the end of his studies, he crammed in a ton of computer science classes and fell in love with the craft. He's worked on firmware, enterprise software, and eventually went to LiveRamp, building new experiences for them.
But outside of tech, he loves pickleball, enjoys growing coffee, and loves reading about historical events. In the past, Sagar and his team took on an API initiative to invest in internal API development experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen.
He immediately saw the need across the industry with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. This is the creation story of Speakeasy.
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