David Cauthron grew up in Dallas, TX and attended UTD for undergrad. Post that, he spent 22 years at Texas Instruments - who makes a whole lot more than calculators - serving in numerous roles in IT, the latter being e-commerce. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, and really enjoys spending time with his family - going to Disney, biking and running. In addition to this, he plays Minecraft with the kids, and attending gymnastics meets and Boy Scout campouts.David was contacted by his current founder and friend, who was going through an intra-prenuership program at SAP. After winning the program, but having the program shut down, he asked David if he was available to start a company and create the Concur for small to medium businesses.This is the creation story of Outpave.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www.outpave.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-cauthron-15806a8/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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I did the thing you probably would never set out to do is I picked technologies that I had no idea how to implement at the time. So my background was in Java development. I did architecture development for a number of years at TI. But when we come to this, we really looked at what is the customer problem we need to solve and how do we scale it?
And we needed to pick technologies that would do both. Java will scale, but it's generally very single node scaling, depending on how you architect it. And we really are looking at something that was a newer platform, easier to develop on, and we could easily hire into. My name is David Cothran. I am CTO and co-founder at OutPave.
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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.
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