Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Episodes
S6 E19: Kirk Marple, Unstruk Data
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kirk Marple has been a family man for 20+ years now. His kids are older now, in their 20's, which he finds amazing. He's been in tech for most...
S6 Bonus: Beier Cai, Commit.dev
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beier Cai has been in the tech space for 16 years, almost exclusively in early stage startups. The third startup he worked at did pretty well, which w...
S6 Bonus: Patrick Bryant, CODE + TRUST
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Bryant lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and splits time in Washington, DC. He loves entrepreneurship, and believes it is the number one ch...
S6 E18: Or Weis, Permit.io
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Or Weis has been a programmer or engineer since the age of 5. He started playing with DOS commands super early in his life. He made a significant leap...
S6 Bonus: Stephanie Florio, Swob
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Florio's journey to tech started in the world of advertising. She always knew that she wanted to be an entrepreneur, but didn't real...
S6 E17: Girish Redekar, Sprinto
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you would have told Girish Redekar while he was in college that he would eventually be writing software, he would have been shocked. His studies fo...
S6 Bonus: Austin Parker, Lightstep
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Austin Parker started out at a young age with computers, writing programs in BASIC and hanging out on bulletin boards. Prior to his tech career, he he...
S6 Bonus: Stephen Mathai-Davis, Q.ai
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Mathai-Davis grew up in a family where he was expected to go into the buy side of Wall Street. Originally, he rebelled against this, pursuing ...
S6 E16: Jimmy Jacobson, Stake.rent
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Jacobson grew up in Snoqualmie, about 45 minutes east of Seattle, Washington. He graduated from college in 2020, as the pandemic was breaking - ...
S6 Bonus: Lars Grønnegaard, Dreamdata
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Outside of technology, Lars Grønnegaard is an avid cyclist. He stats that if you've been to Copenhagen, where his from, you would know that a lot...
S6 Bonus: Jack Naglieri, Panther Labs
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Naglieri grew up in Ohio, but moved to Virginia when he was 10. He had a normal east coast family up-bringing, but he focused on tech early on, e...
S6 E15: Itiel Schwartz, Komodor
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Itiel Schwartz, it's hard to remember life before his current venture. He studied computer science and psychology in school, and during that t...
S6 Bonus: Todd Larsen, Tech Leaders
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the time he was very young, Todd Larsen was always interested in technology. However, he ended up studying audio engineering so found his way to ...
S6 Bonus: Marin Smiljanic, Omnisearch
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marin Smiljanic was born and raised in Croatia. He attended a local math school, which actually got him into tech. Post attending college, his first e...
S6 Bonus: Aaron Bromberg, StimScience
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Bromberg is living the Dad life outside of tech. His kids are 11 and 13, so he wants to spend as much time with them before they get too cool to...
S6 E14: Joe Pettersson, Banked
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Pettersson is quite the renaissance man, with many interests and ventures he is a part of. He's also had an interesting path to tech. He was o...
S6 Bonus: Dan Langevin, Vericred
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Langevin grew up in Madison, CT - east of New Haven. He had a good size family, with his Dad being an engineer and Mother being a teacher. He grew...
S6 Bonus: Roy Ng, Bond
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Ng moved to LA from Hong Kong when he was 10 years old, first with his Mother, with his Father following on a year later. His family moved to the ...
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...