S9 Bonus: Adam Sandman, Inflectra

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Adam Sandman grew up in Wales, in the United Kingdom. He went to university to study physics, because he had a fascination and desire to understand how things in the world worked. It was during this time that he ended up falling in love with tech, and has been in the industry ever since. Outside of tech, he is married with older children. He mentioned he was a scout master in the past, which he really enjoyed how the Scouts were led by the Scouts themselves. In the past, Adam realized that there were not great tools out there for QA testing. He noticed a lot of people were using Excel and Word, along with manual testing through the industry. Given his experience as a project manager and architect, he saw an opportunity in the market - and set out to build a solution. This is the creation story of Inflectra. 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	We're in the year of 2006. The tools that existed then are not the tools today, or maybe the reverse is true. There are many tools today that if I was starting out now, I would use that didn't exist. You're basically working with what was at that point second generation web technologies. So what we did is the first MVP was a traditional web application.
0:24.5	That was one of the things we identified is that most of the legacy tools in our space were mostly client server.
0:25.8	These were installed desktop apps you had to install.
0:28.3	At this point, nothing's being cloud hosted.
0:30.3	Everything's being self-installed.
0:31.9	So we needed a technology stack that was one that could be easy for a customer to install
0:35.7	on the server without necessarily being a system admin.
0:40.1	My name is Adam Sandman and the CEO and founder of Inflictra.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	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	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	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 our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was a pain.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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