Anish Dhar grew up in the Bay Area, but now is located in New York. He felt lucky to be surrounded by technology, being in the Bay Area and having his Dad as a software engineer. His earliest exposure to tech was hacking his Wii - and at that point he was hooked. He eventually joined Uber and experienced many of the problems he is solving today. Outside of tech, he enjoys tennis and playing piano. He loves making music and attending shows to hear other artists, in particular EDM.While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards building services, not documenting them properly. He realized that every company he talked to had the problem of service cataloguing, and he felt confident to apply to take the challenge on and apply to YC.This is the creation story of Cortex.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www.cortex.io/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishdhar/Our Sponsors:* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY* 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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On-prem infrastructure is a requirement for a lot of large enterprises because the way Cortex works is we integrate with a lot of different tooling. For example, we need to connect with your GitHub or GitLab account. And that means we can process the code or read information from those repos, which is important because then you want engineers to be able to access that in the catalog.
First customer was this company called 8x8, and they had very strict security requirements. And so they said, the only way we can use your product is if you give it to us in some sort of on-prem package. But it's completely air-gapped, meaning us at Cortex can't access the product or get any information. It's a lot harder to debug. My name is Anish Dhar, and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Cortex.
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Get started today at clearquery.io slash code story. Anishtar grew up in the Bay Area, but now is located in New York. He felt lucky to be surrounded by technology, being in the Bay Area and having his dad as a software engineer. His earliest exposure to tech was hacking his Wii, and at that point he was hooked. He eventually joined Uber and experienced many of the problems he is solving today.
But outside of tech, he enjoys tennis and playing piano. He loves making music and attending shows to hear other artists, in particular EDM. While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards, building services, not documenting them properly.
He realized that every company he talked to had the same problem of service cataloging, and he felt confident to take the challenge on and apply to YC. This is the creation story of Cortex.
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