S10 E18: Cory O'Daniel, Massdriver

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Cory O'Daniel has had an interesting path to technology, growing his career in a number of cloud architect roles at Ripple, DealScience and The RealReal. He has rich experience in DevOps, the cloud and platform engineering. But outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, living in Southern California. He loves driving (and destroying) RC cars - like the ones that go 65-70 miles per hour. He jumps them off a lot of ramps, his highest jump behind 20 feet upwards... which of course, he landed. Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra - and fuel developers engineering process. This is the creation story of Massdriver. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by AMI. Hardware asset management is hard, and most companies are wasting time and effort on a bad solution.
0:08.2	Asset Management International, or AMI, has been making software to simplify the ham process for over 20 years.
0:15.7	Their automated tools help companies keep tabs on their equipment, from storage to what's on your desk.
0:21.2	Head over to amitracks.com to request a demo today.
0:26.8	Engineers aren't the buyer, right?
0:28.7	They don't control the keys to the cloud kingdom.
0:31.3	This thing can be great for them, but it's going to attach to your cloud.
0:34.1	And as soon as that happens, it's an operational concern.
0:36.4	And so as we're talking to
0:38.2	these companies, the ops teams all of a sudden are like, wait a second, can we put our own modules in
0:43.6	this? And we're like, no, it's not like that. Like, you guys don't need to do this anymore. It would be
0:48.4	really cool if we could put our own in this. And then our engineers could just diagram like our
0:53.9	infrastructure.
0:54.9	So we're like, nah, that's a crazy idea.
0:57.5	And then after about 15 people told us this in a row, we're like, oh, maybe we should
1:01.4	just let people upload their own modules to it and then let their engineers diagram.
1:05.3	That was our like unlocking moment.
1:07.6	I'm Corey O'Daniel, CEO and co-founder of Mass Driver.
1:12.6	This is Code Story.
1:15.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
1:18.5	It's six months moonlighting.
1:19.9	It's nice enough of the backcans.
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