Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S6 E13: Alexander Luksidadi, Rose Rocket

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Luksidadi came to Canada in 2002 as an immigrant, with a dream to work for IBM. However, during his time in school, he had a friend that wen...

S6 Bonus: Liran Haimovitch, Rookout

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Liran Haimovitch is 34 years old, and recently married. He and his wife enjoy traveling and eating delicious foods together, and of course, taking car...

S6 Bonus: Perry Zheng, Cash Flow Portal

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Perry Zheng graduated in 2010 from Duke University. He became a software engineer, working for big name companies like Amazon, Twitter and Lyft. Durin...

S6 E12: Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bobby Gruenewald is a lifelong learner, and an activator. He majored in Finance, but was always interested in entrepreneurship. In 1995, he built a we...

S6 Bonus: Brandy & Ryan, Kitcaster

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brandy Whalen and Ryan Estes are two different folks, joined together in a unified mission. If you look up Denver guy in the dictionary, you will see ...

Mentorcam March - Josh Campbell

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Brand BuildingJosh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplemen...

S6 E11: Hywel Carver, SkillerWhale

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hywel Carver has been writing code since he was 9 years old. His first language was C, which quite a language to start out in, and his first program w...

S6 Bonus: John Egan, Kintaba

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. ...

S6 Bonus: Dr. Gordon Jones, Thrivacy

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Gordon Jones just turned 60 years old, but you wouldn't know it from his energetic, vibrant tone. He has his doctorate in Health Administratio...

Mentorcam March - Edvard Engeseath

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Angel InvestingDr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-found...

S6 E10: Tommy Yionoulis, OpsAnalitica

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tommy Yionoulis has a traditional tech founder st4ry... via hotel, restaurant and standup comedy route. But in all seriousness, his Dad was literally ...

S6 Bonus: Verl Allen, Claravine

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe. During that time, he was raising 3 kids as a single Dad, so you can imagine that dur...

S6 Bonus: What's Your Problem?

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I’m excited to share with you a preview from a new podcast I’ve been enjoying and think you will, too.You may know Jacob Goldstein as the f...

Mentorcam March - Benjamin Balazs

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: All Things ProductBio: Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of M...

S6 E9: Panos Siozos, LearnWorlds

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Panos Siozos and his co-founders go back 25 years or more. They all studied Computer Science together in Greece and did their post graduate studies on...

S6 Bonus: Barak Schoster, Bridgecrew

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Barak Schoster claims he's generally a boring guy. What he does professionally, he also loves to do in his free time - which is coding. He contrib...

Mentorcam March - Max Samuel

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: How VC's see your startupMax Samuel is a venture capitalist and law...

S6 E8: Ev Kontsevoy, Teleport

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ev Kontsevoy wanted to be an engineer when he grew up, and this was directly influenced by his engineering parents. When he was younger, computers wer...

S6 Bonus: Prabhjot Singh, Pyze

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prabhjot Singh has been in enterprise software for the last 22 years - so he has seen a thing or 2. He joined Citibank out of school, and did a leader...

Mentorcam March - Rune Hauge

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Funding your startupFor the first installment of Mentorcam March, we ch...

S6 E7: Brian Vallelunga, Doppler

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends, &...

S6 Bonus: Raghav R S, Animaker

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Raghav was a product developer, starting a young age. He was creating interesting products for science exhibitions as a kid. Once, this professor aske...

Mentorcam March!

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Wednesday to all of you listeners.First and foremost, thank you for being just that - a faithful listener. Thank you for tuning in to the show e...

S6 E6: John Myers, Gretel.ai

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Myers comes from a big military family. He was convinced he was going to be a pilot his whole life. When he was a junior in High School, he start...

S6 Bonus: Jim Fagan, Global Cloud Exchange

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Fagan has had a long and winding road into the tech world. He grew up in New Jersey, and post school, started out in Finance. Slowly, through thos...

S6 Code Story on Goodpods!

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hey y'all, hope everyone is having an awesome day!Do you ever find yourself about to put your earbuds on, or jump in the car, but don't really...

S6 E5: Blake Garrett, Aceable

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Blake Garrett had the good fortunate to grow up in the Bay Area. He got to observe his father and his involvement in startups. Though none of them wer...

S6 Bonus: Michel Tricot, Airbyte

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michel Tricot has been in the data space for the past 15 years. He really enjoys gathering information, and gaining insight from it. As a kid, he woul...

S6 Bonus: Vedran Cindrić, Treblle

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vedran Cindrić grew up in a small town, in rural Croatia. As far back as he can remember, he has been tinkering with computers - messing around with...

S6 E4: Mike Boufford, Greenhouse

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Boufford has no hobbies anymore, and for good reason... he has two 6 month old daughters and a 3 year old toddler, so its an exciting and very bu...

S6 Bonus: Lindsay Tjepkema, Casted

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lindsay Tjepkema is married with three kids, living in Indianapolis. Her children are all boys, and she lovingly describes them more like bear cubs, t...

S6 Bonus: Rob Carpenter, Valyant

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Carpenter was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska - and no... he can't see Russia from his back steps. He has been a long term space ship ne...

S6 E3: Matt Pierce, Immediate

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Pierce has been a tech guy for his entire 17 year career. Coming out of grad school, he started out in healthcare tech for a decade or so. Eventu...

S6 Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area. His grandparents were immigrants, and owned a ba...

S6 Bonus: Matt Cowell, Quanthub

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, getting his Bachelors in Chemistry and Masters in ...

S6 E2: Trevor Marshall, Current

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trevor Marshall grew up in NY, and has been living in the state his whole life. His path into technology was not a direct one. Prior to school, he was...

S6 Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook

20 Jan 2022

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...

S6 Bonus: Reed McGinley-Stempel, Stytch

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Reed McGinley-Stempel grew up in Las Vegas, but went to school on the East Coast. Frankly, he didn't know what he wanted to do and "stumbled&#...

S6 E1: Stephen Blum, Pubnub

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Blum finds that his life outside of tech is tricky to define, given we are surrounded by tech everywhere. He was inspired to be a game develop...

S5 Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next.js (Replay)

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. ...

S5 Bonus: Adrian Tobey, Groundhogg (Replay)

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In hi...

Season 6 Trailer

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast.As we dive into another journey together, in fact our 6th...

Season 5 Sign Off

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is Season 5, signing off....Thank you for listening!Season 6 of the Code Story podcast will be starting SOON, so stay tuned.Support this podcast ...

S5 Bonus: Shelby Stephens, Growth Match

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events an...

S5 E30: Adam Wiggins, Muse

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Wiggins was from California originally, but has lived in Berlin for the last decade. Earlier in his life, he did burning man art installations a...

S5 Bonus: Lydia Davies, Teemates

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world. She was Born in Thailand, and has lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Al...

S5 E29: Nick Clayton, Savitude

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these...

S5 Bonus: Marco Palladino, Kong

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marco Palladino migrated from Italy about 10 years ago.. and brought all of his Italian hobbies with him. He loves to cook - specifically pasta, of co...

S5 E28: Oona Rokyta, Lance

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oona Rokyta is a first generation American, which you wouldn't expect from her lack of accent. Her parents are artists from the Czech Republic, wh...

S5 Bonus: Ari Jacoby, Deduce

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ari Jacoby grew up in the DC Metro Area, but has lived in New York City for the last 17 years. He's married with 2 kids at home, ages 12 and 9, an...

S5 Bonus: Ben Downling, IPInfo

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Dowling lives in Seattle, and loves it there. He is married, and a father of three kids - ages 11, 8 and 5 - so he's a busy dude. He loves to ...

Compiler - What is the recipe for burnout?

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original episode: https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentationHey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the ...

S5 E27: Max Stoiber, GraphCDN

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Max Stoiber was born and raised in a small town, just outside of Vienna, Austria. From a young age, his biggest influence was his mother, who left her...

S5 Bonus: Darshan Mehta, iResearch

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Darshan Mehta has a degree in marketing and finance, and has typically served those disciplines. However, he has been accused of having the extra tech...

S5 Bonus: Ilan Peleg, Lightrun

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ilan Peleg is 29 years old, and has been a long time middle distance runner. He previously ran the 800 meters, and served int he Israeli Army as a pro...

S5 E26: Bruno Demuro, Armor Bionics

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bruno Demuro is first and foremost, a father of 2 children. He says this is the single most awesome thing, and yet at the same time, the most challeng...

S5 Bonus: Kyle Bernhardy, HarperDB

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Bernhardy had a less than traditional path to the tech world. He has been in the industry since the late 90's, but it all started when he was...

S5 Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cherish Santoshi started his professional career when he was just 18. He plays music, being a one man band through his guitar, bass and drum skills. H...

S5 E25: Bobby Ross, Fire Hydrant

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Ross, also known as Bobby Tables, has been into building stuff since he was 12 years old. Around that time, he Googled "how to make a websi...

S5 Bonus: Luke Hoban, Pulumi

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Hoban has been into tech and computers for many, many years. It started off when he was a kid, but sailed with him into college as he got into la...

S5 E24: Thejo Kote, Airbase

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thejo Kote grew up in Southern India. He came from an academic, intellectual family. Both of his grandfathers were authors, and in the house, they had...

S5 Bonus: Shinji Kim, Select Star

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shinji Kim was born in Korea. Her family moved to Canada when she was 13 years old. She likes to hang out with her friends, watch movies and likes to ...

S5 Bonus: Adrian Tobey, Groundhogg

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In hi...

S5 Bonus: Brandon White, File Finder

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon White started his career from his passion for fishing. In doing so, he wound up building the largest social networking and eCommerce site for ...

Compiler – Why Should You Write Technical Documentation?

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original episode: https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentationHey guys, getting close to Thanksgiving in the states. For today, I&...

S5 E23: Ulf Schwekendiek, Centered.app

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ulf Schwekendiek was brought up in Germany, but spent most of his life in the US. He speaks German with an American accent, and English with a German ...

S5 Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next.js

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. ...

S5 Bonus: David Ciccarelli, Voices.com

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David Ciccarelli is a husband to his partner in life and business, Stephanie, and a dad to 4 kids - one boy, and three girls. He loves to be doing any...

S5 E22: Josh Dzielak, Orbit

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Dzielak is originally from the US, but lives in Paris now. And because of this, he likes to take advantage and walk around to take in the sights....

S5 Bonus: Matt Dixon, Code Program

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Dixon grew up job hopping, before eventually starting his own business. He is married with 5 kids - 1 daughter and 4 sons. He loves to eat, spend...

S5 Bonus: Oleg Friedman, Verb Data

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oleg Fridman has been at this startup thing for a while. Most of his career, he has been working for himself, remotely. In High School, he was drug in...

S5 Bonus: Phil Lawson-Shanks, Aligned

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Phill Lawson-Shanks has had a convoluted path into tech. In the past, he worked for a company that owned and operated airpots in Europe. He got involv...

S5 E21: Laura Butler, Uplift

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For Laura Butler, tech has always been woven into her life. She left Harvard to go work full time at Microsoft, because she was having the time of her...

S5 Bonus: Anthony Castrio, Indie Worldwide

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Castrio has been a freelance engineer and digital nomad for 3.5 years. He currently living in Mexico City, but is originally from upstate New ...

S5 Bonus: Leon Kuperman, CAST.ai

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leon Kuperman comes from an immigrant family, who migrated to North America in the late 70's. He was born in a city that is not part of the Ukrain...

Compiler - Do we want a world without technical debt?

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original episode: https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-podcast/what-is-technical-debt?pfe-ngumm8p1n=show-notesHey guys, I'm back again to share anot...

S5 E20: Nate Joens, Structurely

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nate Joens was born and raised in Iowa. And in fact, he plans to spend out the rest of his days there, cause he loves it. He lovingly calls it the Sil...

S5 Bonus: Ryan Johnson, CallRail

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Johnson is originally from Saginaw, Michigan, and now lives in Atlanta. He never imagined he would get into tech. In fact, when he was growing up...

S5 Bonus: Kordel France, Seekar Technologies

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kordel France has always been infatuated with finding order in chaos - and has carried that way of living throughout his life. He is an engineer by tr...

S5 Bonus: Philippe Kwiatkowski, Ubico

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Phillipe Kwiatkowski has been addicted to gaming since he was a teenager. He played games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Grand Theft Auto. In th...

S5 E19: Joshua Wohle, Mindstone

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua Whole was born in the Netherlands. Before he was 13, he actually went to 5 different schools. Afterwards, he moved to Switzerland and went into...

S5 Bonus: Mahmoud Abdelkader, Very Good Security (VGS)

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mahmoud Abdelkader immigrated to the United States from Egypt, from a city 100 km east of Cairo, on the Suez Canal. He was 8 years old when he moved t...

S5 Bonus: Sergei Egorov, AtomicJar

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sergei Egorov grew up in a small city of only 100,000 citizens (which is huge compared to some cities). He grew up in Siberia, in the cold part of the...

S5 E18: Tigran Nazaryan, 10Web

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tigran Nazaryan started out doing science in University. In fact, he was studying physics, and then went on to do his PhD in Astronomy in Astro Physic...

S5 Bonus: John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Kodumal grew up really into computers. And, he is old enough that during his childhood, it was abnormal to be so into computers. To illustrate ju...

S5 Bonus: Brian Singer, Nobl9

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Singer has always been interested in computers. He into gaming in high school, which he claims is what led him to an engineering degree in colle...

S5 E17: LaKeisha Turner, AlgoPear

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

LaKeisha Turner is a strong woman. She has her hands full, as a single mom of a 16 year old girl, and an 8 year old boy. She is a breast cancer surviv...

S5 Bonus: Lyric Jain, Logically

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lyric Jain comes from a family of business people, and is an engineer by training. He was born in India, and spent the first half of his life there. W...

Compiler - Should Managers Code?

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hey guys, today I want to tell you about a new podcast I'm digging. It's called Compiler, an original podcast from Red Hat, who also brought y...

S5 E16: Veena Somareddy, Neuro Rehab VR

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Veena Somareddy is from India, and came to the US in 2012 to peruse her Masters degree in Game Design & Development. Technology has been an integr...

S5 Bonus: Adam Robinson, Retention.com (Formerly GetEmails)

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Robinson has had an interesting path into the tech world. He started out at Lehmen Brothers, and eventually Barclays, as a credit default swap tr...

S5 Bonus: Paraag Sarva, Rhino

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Paraag Sarva is a New York City native. He grew up in Queens, and went to college at NYU. When he started his career, he didn't think about going ...

S5 E15: Matt Schwartz, Afresh

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Schwartz is a lover of food. It's been a huge part of his personal and professional life, in such areas like evidence based nutrition, exerci...

S5 Bonus: Cody Candee, Bounce

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Travel is a huge part of Code Candee's life, even prior to his current venture. He has lived in a dozen different cities, travelled to over 60 cou...

S5 Bonus: Andrew Childs, Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io)

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Childs doesn't have a computer science background. He grew up in Philly, and is currently based in NYC with his wife and 6 year old. His fi...

S5 E14: Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Derrick Reimer got his first computer in kindergarten. His Dad was a mechanical engineer, but at home, tinkered with code.. and Derrick was always int...

S5 Bonus: Greg Ratner, Troops

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Rather comes from a family of artists, so he always envisioned himself going in to art. From an early age, he was drawing and creating comics (fu...

S5 E13: Andrew Butt, Enable

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Butt always dreamed of being an airline pilot, and his passion outside of tech is flying. He has spent more time in helicopters over planes, an...

S5 Bonus: Rahul Sidhu, SpidrTech

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rahul Sidhu was one of those kids who was always fiddling with computers. He even had a small tech startup in high school, to help him pay his way thr...

S5 E12: Chris Wexler, Krunam

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Wexler had a crazy path to get where he is today. By his count, he is on his 6th career. His first job was on Capital Hill, followed up with a s...