S8 E2: Sefi Genis, Firefly

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

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 the Israeli military, specifically in the cybersecurity unit, followed by working at some interesting and successful startups. Outside of tech, he loves to travel, ninja warrior, and scuba diving. One of his favorite places to dive was Thailand, which I've added to the list for my family. Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. This is the creation story of Firefly. 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 made many decisions and many trade-offs to build MVP because I was alone.
0:07.0	I didn't have the resources to build something scalable and I wanted to build something that
0:13.0	can show the value and to explain the world why Firefox is the solution that can solve the cloud
0:19.0	complexity. I am a Kubernetes guy, and I believe in Kubernetes,
0:24.6	but I used Lambda function because it couldn't invest time on DevOps operations.
0:30.6	And that was good enough, but of course that after the seed round,
0:34.6	we needed to refactor and to change this to Kubernetes.
0:42.3	I'm Sefiganis, CTO and co-founder of Firefly.
0:48.5	This is Code Story.
0:52.3	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change an industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	She took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of her team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is up pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
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