S7 E7: Alexandre Omeyer, Stepsize

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Alex Omeyer is undercover French ,despite his thick British accent. He was born and raised in Paris, and though he studied business and management, he spent most of his time doing show jumping - in other wides, riding horses to jump over obstacles. He moved over to the UK to join his brother, finish his Masters, and get cracking on what they were going to build together. Alex, his brother, and their friends set off building software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process, and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code. But.. in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data, in a trustworthy manner. This is the creation story of Stepsize. 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	I think a lot of this stuff we've made sense of in hindsight and it may sound very organized when I describe it here, but at the time it was a total mess.
0:08.0	We built this extension to create issues linked to code and we realized that it was a way to help engineers deal with technical debt.
0:19.0	When we started thinking about technical debt, we realized that there are different kinds of technical debt. When we started thinking about technical debt, we realized that there
0:23.1	are different kinds of technical debt, and it's maybe different than what you traditionally hear
0:27.8	or read out there, in that the only types of tech debt that mattered for us were whether it was
0:33.5	small, medium, or large. And I'll explain because it feeds into our roadmap from there.
0:39.5	My name's Alex O'Meyer. I'm the co-fambered CEO of Step Size.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead, a team that has your back.
1:02.4	I'm your host, Noel Aap, and today how Alex O'Meer built a startup for your developers
1:08.4	to document and fix issues in their code.
1:13.5	All this and more on Code Story.
1:19.9	Alex O'Meier is undercover French, despite his thick British accent.
1:24.7	He was born and raised in Paris, and though he studied business and management,
1:28.1	he spent most of his time doing show jumping. In other words, riding horses to jump over
1:32.5	obstacles. He moved over to the UK to join his brother, finish his masters, and get cracking
1:37.7	on what they were going to build together. Alex, his brother and their friend set off building
1:42.3	software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process,
1:47.0	and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code.
1:51.0	But in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data
1:57.0	in a trustworthy manner.
1:59.0	This is the creation story of StepSize.
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