Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S9 E15: Saravana Kumar, Document360

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Saravana Kumar is from India, near Chennai, but moved to London 23 years ago. He loves to play badminton, and is very into high quality cars. One of h...

S9 Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Sellars grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and was interested in technology at an early age. He went to Georgia Tech to get his degree, and after sp...

S9 E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with computers, dating back to his High School Freshma...

S9 E13: David Boskovic, Flatfile

27 Feb 2024

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David Boskovic grew up on a farm, in a small town in Canada. He grew up milking cows, not building technology. However, when he was 12 years old, he b...

S9 Bonus: Debbie Levitt, Delta CX

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Debbie Levitt is an American living in Italy, with her Italian husband, and their 5 dogs. Many years ago, she obtained a degree in Music, but now focu...

S9 E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix

20 Feb 2024

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Yoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in Tel Aviv, and has spent 30 years in technology. He...

S9 Bonus: Shauli Rozen, ARMO Security

15 Feb 2024

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Shauli Rozen grew up in Israel, and besides a 5 year stint stateside, he has spent his whole life there. He is married with 3 boys, and is 45 years ol...

S9 E11: Srikar Sam Yeruva, Pycube

13 Feb 2024

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Srikar Sam Yeruva comes from an immigrant family from India. He had a humble background, which shaped his path forward and how he approaches life with...

S9 Bonus: David Hartmann, Helio Additive

08 Feb 2024

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David Hartmann is a German born New Zealander, where he still lives today. His first job was to spend 17 years at Bayer, getting deep in the materials...

S9 E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Pilarinos was tinkerer at an early age. He always found himself wanting to understand how things were put together - and as such, he would take...

S9 Bonus: Ruslan Zaripov, RiskHunter by KRIT

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ruslan Zaripov has been interested in computers since the early days. He started his career as a database developer, and eventually became a project m...

S9 Bonus: Erik Gross, The Tech Academy

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Gross had an odd journey into tech. He grew up in the redwoods of California, off the grid with no running water in a tee pee. However, there was...

S9 E9: Ryo Koyama, Remote.it

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ryo Koyama never thought he would be in technology. In the past, and in current days, he is very much into art, photography and woodworking. However, ...

S9 E8: Roger Light, Cedalo

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in paral...

S9 Bonus: Nate Henderson, BILT

18 Jan 2024

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Nathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was 5 years old. His wife grew up in Mexico, and as s...

S9 Bonus: Craig McLuckie, Stacklok

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Craig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried retiring from his professional ventures - IE buil...

S9 E7: Naomi Chopra, Hatica

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. He worked in the valley for several companies, incl...

S9 E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge...

S9 Bonus: Jonathan Norris, DevCycle & Taplytics

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Norris lives in Toronto, and has a passion for tech that started early in his life. He has participated in the First Robotics competition, wh...

S9 E5: Gilad Shriki, Descope

02 Jan 2024

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Gilad Shriki was born and raised in Israel. He loves the outdoors, and loves to travel. Skiing in a passion of his, and he loves to explore new places...

S9 Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook (Replay)

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do wel...

S9 Bonus: Sahil Patel, Spiralyze

21 Dec 2023

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Sahil Patel has lived in Atlanta for 12 years now, but has made a lifetime of leaving Atlanta... and the coming back. He attended undergrad in ATL, an...

S9 Bonus: Ariel & Irena, Healthbird

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ariel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family member...

S9 E4: Ayal Regev, Redefine.dev

19 Dec 2023

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Ayal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Pr...

S9 Bonus: Leonardo Shapiro, Not Alien

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leonardo Shapiro is originally from Mexico City. His family was from Russia and Poland, but ended up being in Mexico City after being denied from the ...

S9 Bonus: Blake Burch, Shipyard

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a mus...

S9 E3: Reinis Simanovskis, Finfra

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Reinis Simanovskis was born in Latvia. He comes from a family of exact sciences - physic, math, tech, etc. - which gave him a clear path of where to g...

S9 Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Raven Jiang grew up in Singapore before heading over to the states for college. He came to the US for undergrad because he grew up reading science fic...

S9 Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avi Freedman became obsessed with tech at age 8. He was given a BASIC programming book by his Uncle in 1978, and at that point - he was hooked. Outsid...

S9 E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Juan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his mo...

S9 Bonus: Fabiana Clemente, YData

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fabiana Clemente was born and raised in Portugal, and lived in Lisbon until 2 years ago, when she moved to Seattle. She is passionate about the arts, ...

S9 Bonus: Kyle Carberry, Coder

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Carberry grew up in a very small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was always into tech, but mainly the pirating side of things on his dial up int...

S9 E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And du...

Season 9 Trailer

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you had a window into the digital startup world?What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?......

S8 Bonus: Puneet Gupta, Amberflo (Replay)

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quit...

S8 Bonus: Glauber Costa, Turso (Replay)

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made...

S8 Bonus: Sefi Genis, Firefly (Replay)

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in th...

S8 Bonus: Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy (Replay)

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified th...

S8 Bonus: Alex Yarotsky, Hubstaff

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Yarotsky got into tech as a little kid. In fact, he remembers watching the movie Toy Story, and wanting to learn how to build the tech that drove...

S8 Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pato Echague was born and raised in Argentina, and as such, is a huge soccer fan. He played soccer and tennis growing up, and enjoys following the Boc...

S8 E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Moti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father of 3 kids, 2 of wh...

S8 Bonus: Shaun Ritchie, nClouds

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shaun Ritchie has lived in Salt Lake City for 20 plus years. He grew up in Phoenix, but decided it was too hot to live there. He started his first com...

S8 Bonus: Arunabh Dastidar, RealSage

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Arunabh Dastidar has a background in engineering, starting his coding years in his teens. In fact, he was building and selling web products even prior...

S8 E29: Zach Wasserman, Fleet

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zach Wasserman lives near Vancouver, but grew up a child of the 90's in Berkeley, California. The .COM boom was happening around him, so he found ...

S8 Bonus: Steven Schkolne, MightyMeld

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Schkolne has a standard tech story. He was good at math, and loved computers - so, he got into programming. What sets him apart in the industry...

S8 Bonus: Somak Chattopadhyay, Armory Square Ventures

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Somak Chattopadhyay lives 30 minutes outside of Syracuse, NY, where he enjoys the great outdoors vibe of the area. He studied engineering at MIT, but ...

S8 E28: Maxim Fateev, Temporal

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Maxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Scien...

S8 Bonus: Ibrahim & Jay, Astera

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ibrahim Surani grew up in Pakistan, dropped out of high school and in his words, stumbled around for a while. Eventually, he stumbled onto an IBM main...

S8 Bonus: Jason Radisson, Movo

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Radisson had a tough childhood, being born to a 16 year old single mom. He grew up on a rural place, and his journey required him to work jobs t...

S8 E27: Valeriy Bykanov, Prodigy

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Valeriy Bykanov studied computer science in the Ukraine, and eventually in 2009, decided to start his own software development agency. After doing thi...

S8 Bonus: Massoud Alibakhsh, Omadeus

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Massoud Alibakhsh was born in Iran, but grew up in the states. He has always been curious about machines, computers, robots - and as such, studied ele...

S8 E26: Josh Purvis, Assembly

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Purvis grew up in Missouri, on a lake in the Ozarks. He spent most of his time outdoors, and became a professional wakeboarder. Eventually, an in...

S8 Bonus: Max Rudman, Prodly

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Max Rudman grew up in Soviet, Moscow - then moved from Russia when he was 16 years old. He spent his early years programming and exploring engineering...

S8 Bonus: Kaj Pedersen, AstrumU

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. ...

S8 E25: Andrew Colombi, Tonic

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to load it. After diggi...

Dev Interrupted: Assembling & Nurturing Engineering Teams

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned ...

S8 Bonus: Max Howell, Tea

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Max Howell did well in school, and was presented with the problem that - he didn't know what to do with himself. At that time, software wasn't...

S8 Bonus: Shirshanka Das, Acryl Data

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. P...

S8 E24: Jon Ricketts, Writerly

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Ricketts lives in Knoxville, TN with his wife and kids. He notes that he has had an unconventional route to being a tech startup founder. He has a...

S8 Bonus: Tim Tutt, ClearQuery

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different school...

S8 Bonus: Alfredo Ramirez, Vyopta

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, ...

S8 E23: Will Gaviria, Coactive AI

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will Gaviria was born and raised in Columbia, immigrating to Florida at 11 years old. His family seta off in a single bedroom together, and worked har...

S8 Bonus: Andrew Kahl, BackBox

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Kahl has spent 30 years in tech, and has had many wonderful experiences. He graduated in 1992, and actually accidentally entered the industry, ...

S8 Bonus: Pete Hunt, Dagster

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in partic...

S8 E22: Eric Olden, Strata Identity

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Olden grew up in the Bay Area, as one of the few local natives, but enjoys the mountains of Colorado now, outside of Boulder. He and his family l...

S8 Bonus: Barak Glanz, Coddy.tech

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Barak Glanz is 26 years old, and has done quite a few things in his life. He served in the Israeli Navy prior to jumping into the professional world. ...

S8 Bonus: David Hurwitt, Troove

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Hurwitt lives in Burlington, Vermont, and is a married father of 3. And, those kids hav already grown and flown, per Dave's words. Their jou...

S8 E21: Jared Ward, Luminous

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jared Ward grew up in a sporty family, participating in wrestling and football. His background is in supply chain and eCommerce, but outside of this a...

S8 Bonus: Vikram Chalana, Pictory

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vikram Chalana grew up in India, but has been in Seattle over 30 years. He graduated from the University of Washington, and actually met his wife in c...

S8 Bonus: Dor Laor, ScyllaDB

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dor Laor lives North of Tel Aviv, Israel, but travels 4 times out of the year to the states. He loves tech, which drives 200% of his day. Outside of t...

S8 E20: Artem Koren, Sembly AI

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Artem Koren is now based in Amsterdam, and has been a techy since his early years. He was programming Q-basic and C in 5th grade, and building web app...

From Tools and Weapons: Putting AI in the Hands of People Everywhere

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Listeners. This week, we're sharing another episode of the Tools and Weapons podcast, brought to you by our friends at Microsoft.Microsoft’...

S8 Bonus: Adam Nathan, Almanac

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Nathan was born and raised in New York. His parents were small business owners, his brother is entrepreneur, so starting a business was just in h...

S8 Bonus: Idan Plotnik, Apiiro

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Idan Plotnik is a half Russian and half Moroccan, which mainly shows up in the way he cooks. First and foremost though, he is a geek, having worked in...

S8 E19: Yann Ravel-Sibillot, Flowie

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yann Ravel-Sibillot lives in France, and has a lot of hobbies. Ones that he mentioned was kayaking and rock climbing, which he has been doing for more...

S8 Bonus: Danielle Shaul, Nilus

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Danielle Shaul was born and raised in Tel Aviv, as an only child with a dog she dearly loved. She has always been passionate about building and creati...

S8 Bonus: Dan & Caroline, Overplay

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Strzalka is a Philadelphia native, born and raised. She is a first generation American, and is grateful to be in a place where she can run he...

S8 E18: Ritukar Vijay, Ottonomy

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ritukar Vijay has been in tech for around 16 years. He has always been fascinated with new things above and beyond the normal day to day grind. During...

S8 Bonus: Mike Long, Kosli

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Long describes himself as near really sitting still. He was born in Australia, but when he was 9 years old, he moved to Scotland. Post school, he...

S8 Bonus: Suman Kanuganti, Personal AI

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Suman Kanuganti is married with a 5 year old daughter, which he greatly enjoys. He loves robots, as a robotics major, but describes himself as a human...

S8 E17: Jay Sarmaz, Truve.ai

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Sarmaz studied operations research in college, which he describes as the science of solving problems and maximizing value with limited resources. ...

S8 Bonus: Reza Farahani, WFHomie

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Reza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he...

S8 Bonus: Alex Bovee, ConductorOne

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can ...

S8 E16: Job Rietbergen, Alphadoc

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Job Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things...

Beyond Bots - Daniel Jordan, Wayflyer

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financia...

S8 Bonus: David Frank, Stonehaven

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Frank grew up in Denver, CO, and as expected, he grew up loving skiing. He mentioned that Vale was his favorite mountain, and continues to love ...

S8 Bonus: Max Walker, Piton Labs

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Max Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating w...

S8 E15: Alex Louisy, Upflow

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he wa...

Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financia...

S8 Bonus: Matthew O'Riordan, Ably

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft br...

S8 Bonus: Ali Nichols, Getaway

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ali Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and...

S8 E14: Dan Lines, LinearB

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now li...

Beyond Bots - Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financia...

S8 Bonus: Einat Sitbon, iFocus Health

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computat...

S8 Bonus: Sharekh Shaikh, CleverX

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals...

S8 E13: Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Colleen Schnettler was a stay at home Mom for many years, taking care of her 3 children. When she was looking to return to work, she was looking for r...

S8 Bonus: Eduardo Abeliuk, Teselagen

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eduardo Abeliuk is originally from Santiago, Chile, where he spent the first few decades of his life. From early days, he had a deep curiosity to unde...

Beyond Bots - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are kicking off a special and new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at ...

S8 Bonus: Adriaan van Rossum, Simple Analytics

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adriaan van Rossum is a tech guy even at home. He likes to tinker with home automation, like turning on the lights - which his girlfriend doesn't ...

S8 E12: Stephanie Mertz, Eisen

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Mertz is into software development because she likes to create something from nothing - IE the blank canvas nature of coding. Outside of tec...