Konrad Niemiec lives in San Francisco. He is very close to his family, of which his parents are polish immigrants. He started coding when he was 11, while working for his Dad. His core values are curiosity and community, which drives a lot of what he does outside of tech. He likes to learn things, and his current hobby set includes surfing and spike ball, of which he is working on perfecting his spin serve.Konrad worked at Uber, on the self driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup. He introduced a feature flagging platform, and realized how quickly configuration bloat appeared on the platform. He also realized how dynamic configuration could take the platform beyond the limits of feature flags.This is the creation story of Lekko.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www.lekko.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/konrad-niemiec/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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We were just really focused on, oh, what is the best parts of these solutions that we can take and put together into a product most easily and deliver it to customers? But what we didn't have a great understanding about was what problems are we solving? Are we solving the problem of getting untested code out to production and being able to roll that back quickly?
Are we solving the problem of a product manager or a customer success person or a sales person or an ops person making a change to software safely? Like what problems are we actually solving with this tool and who needs this the most? And who is that initial user base? My name is Konrad Niemietz. I'm the founder and CEO of Lecko.
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All this and more on Code Story. I'm your host, Noah Lappart. And today, how Conrad Nimitz built you a way to ship faster. with no redeploys and no mistakes. This episode is sponsored by KiteWorks. Legacy managed file transfer tools lack proper security, putting sensitive data at risk. With KiteWorks MFT, companies can send automated or ad hoc files in a fully integrated, highly secure manner.
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With Ask ClearQuery, you can find valuable insights into your data using plain English. Don't miss the opportunity to simplify your data analytics with ClearQuery. Get started today at clearquery.io slash code story. Konrad Nibiec lives in San Francisco. He's very close to his family, of which his parents are Polish immigrants. He started coding when he was 11 while working for his dad.
His core values are curiosity and community, which drives a lot of what he does outside of tech. He likes to learn other things, and his current hobby set includes surfing and spikeball, of which he's working on perfecting his spin serve. Conrad worked at Uber on the self-driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup.
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